Pisagua, a small port of the now Chilian province of Tarapacá, 40 miles N. of Iquique by rail; pop. 2131. It was bombarded and was the scene of much fighting during the Chilian civil war in 1891.
Pisagua
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 195
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