Tarapacá Department (Chile)
| Iquique (1927–1974) Tarapacá (1884–1927) | |||||||||
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| Department of Chile | |||||||||
Map of Tarapacá Province (1895) | |||||||||
| Capital | Iquique | ||||||||
| Demonym | Tarapaqueño, a | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1885 | 40,000 km2 (15,000 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1885 | 33,051 | ||||||||
| Historical era | War of the Pacific | ||||||||
| 20 October 1883 | |||||||||
• Established | 31 October 1884 | ||||||||
• Renamed | 30 December 1927 | ||||||||
• Reorganised | 1974 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Chile | ||||||||
Iquique, known as Tarapacá from 1884 to 1927, was a department of Tarapacá, a province of Chile. Located in the Atacama Desert, it existed between 1884 to 1976. Its capital was Iquique.
The Treaty of Ancón, which put an end to the war, was signed on October 20, 1883. The following year, the province of Tarapacá was formally created on October 31, incorporating the former Peruvian department of the same name. At the time, the provinces, subdivided into departments, were the first-level administrative divisions of Chile. The department, renamed on December 30, 1927, existed until the country's administrative reorganisation during the 1970s.