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Iquique, the Glossary

Iquique is a port city and commune in northern Chile, capital of both the Iquique Province and Tarapacá Region.^[1]

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1836 establishments in Chile
Capitals of Chilean regions
Coasts of Tarapacá Region
Populated places in Iquique Province
Port cities in Chile

Administrative divisions of Chile

The administrative division or territorial organization of Chile exemplifies characteristics of a unitary state.

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Alcalde

Alcalde is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions.

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Alfonso Ugarte

Alfonso Ugarte (July 13, 1847 – June 7, 1880) was a Peruvian civilian turned military commander during the War of the Pacific, between Peru and Bolivia against Chile.

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Americans and Canadians in Chile

American Chileans and Canadian Chileans are among roughly 300,000 Chileans of North American ancestry (includes Americans and Canadians).

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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Arica is a commune and a port city with a population of 222,619 in the Arica Province of northern Chile's Arica y Parinacota Region. Iquique and Arica are capitals of Chilean provinces, capitals of Chilean regions, communes of Chile and port cities in Chile.

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Arica y Parinacota Region

The Arica y Parinacota Region (Región de Arica y Parinacota) is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions.

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Arturo Godoy

Arturo Godoy (October 10, 1912 – 1986) was a Chilean professional boxer, also nicknamed "Arturito".

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Arturo Prat

Agustín Arturo Prat Chacón (April 3, 1848 – May 21, 1879) was a Chilean lawyer and navy officer.

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Atacama Desert

The Atacama Desert (Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile.

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Atacama Desert border dispute

The Atacama Desert border dispute was a dispute between Bolivia and Chile from 1825 to 1879 for the territories of the Atacama Coast due to the different views of both countries of the territory inherited from the Spanish Empire.

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Battle of Iquique

The Battle of Iquique was a naval engagement on 21 May 1879, during the War of the Pacific, where a Chilean corvette commanded by Arturo Prat Chacón faced a Peruvian ironclad under Miguel Grau Seminario.

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Bolivians

Bolivians (Bolivianos) are people identified with the country of Bolivia.

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Chamber of Deputies of Chile

The Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados) is the lower house of Chile's bicameral Congress.

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Chango people

The Changos, also known as Camanchacos or Camanchangos, are an Indigenous people or group of peoples who inhabited a long stretch of the Pacific coast from southern Peru to north-central Chile, including the coast of the Atacama desert.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Chilean Army

The Chilean Army (Ejército de Chile) is the land arm of the Chilean Armed Forces.

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Communes of Chile

A commune (comuna) is the smallest administrative subdivision in Chile.

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Communist Party of Chile

The Communist Party of Chile (Partido Comunista de Chile, italics) is a communist party in Chile.

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Croats

The Croats (Hrvati) or Horvati (in a more archaic version) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other neighboring countries in Central and Southeastern Europe who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language.

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Deportes Iquique

Club de Deportes Iquique S.A.D.P. is a Chilean football club based in Iquique that is a current member of the Chilean Primera División.

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Desert climate

The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk) is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation.

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Diego Aracena International Airport

Diego Aracena International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Diego Aracena) is an airport serving Iquique, capital of the Tarapacá Region in Chile.

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Electoral divisions of Chile

Chile has two distinct electoral division systems.

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Free economic zone

Free economic zones (FEZ), free economic territories (FETs) or free zones (FZ) are a class of special economic zone (SEZ) designated by the trade and commerce administrations of various countries.

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Greater Iquique

Greater Iquique, officially Área Metropolitana Alto Hospicio-Iquique, is a that includes Iquique and Alto Hospicio communes in the Iquique Province in Tarapacá Region. Iquique and Greater Iquique are coasts of Tarapacá Region.

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Greeks

The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..

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Guillermo Billinghurst

Guillermo Enrique Billinghurst Angulo (27 July 1851, Arica – 28 June 1915, Iquique) was a Peruvian politician of English descent who served as the 37th President of Peru.

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Independent politician

An independent, non-partisan politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association.

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Iquique Province

Iquique Province (Provincia de Iquique) is one of two provinces in the northern Chilean region of Tarapacá.

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Italians

Italians (italiani) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region.

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José Miguel Insulza

José Miguel Insulza Salinas (born June 2, 1943) is a Chilean politician, lawyer, and academic serving as a senator for the Arica y Parinacota Region since 2018.

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Juan Zanelli

Juan Ernesto Zanelli de Vescovi was a prominent Chilean racing driver, considered the first Chilean and the first South American to win a Grand Prix in Europe.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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List of cities in Chile

This is a list of cities in Chile.

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Moment magnitude scale

The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted explicitly with M or or Mwg, and generally implied with use of a single M for magnitude) is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude ("size" or strength) based on its seismic moment.

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Municipal council

A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.

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National Statistics Institute (Chile)

The National Statistics Institute of Chile (Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Chile, INE) is a state-run organization of the Government of Chile, created in the second half of the 19th century and tasked with performing a general census of population and housing, then collecting, producing and publishing official demographic statistics of people in Chile, in addition to other specific tasks entrusted to it by law.

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Navy Day

Several nations observe or have observed a Navy Day to recognize their navy.

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Pacific coast

Pacific coast may be used to reference any coastline that borders the Pacific Ocean.

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Pampa del Tamarugal

Pampa del Tamarugal ("Plateau of the Tamarugal") is a vast plain encompassing a significant portion of the Norte Grande, Chile, and originally named for the Prosopis tamarugo trees that used to cover its surface.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Peruvians

Peruvians (peruanos/peruanas) are the citizens of Peru.

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Potassium nitrate

Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with a sharp, salty, bitter taste and the chemical formula.

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Provinces of Chile

A province is a second-level administrative division in Chile.

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Public holidays in Chile

This is a list of public holidays (national or otherwise) in Chile; about half of them are Christian holidays.

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Punta Arenas

Punta Arenas (historically known as Sandy Point in English) is the capital city of Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antarctica Chilena. Iquique and Punta Arenas are capitals of Chilean provinces, capitals of Chilean regions, communes of Chile and port cities in Chile.

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Quilapayún

Quilapayún are a folk music group from Chile and among the longest lasting and most influential ambassadors of the Nueva Canción Chilena movement and genre.

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Ramón Castilla

Ramón Castilla y Marquesado (31 August 1797 – 30 May 1867) was a Peruvian caudillo who served as President of Peru three times as well as the Interim President of Peru (Revolution Self-proclaimed President) in 1863.

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Regions of Chile

Chile is divided into 16 regions (in Spanish, regiones; singular), which are the country's first-level administrative division.

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Roberto Silva Renard

Roberto Silva Renard (February 27, 1855 – July 7, 1920) was a Chilean military and political figure who served in the War of the Pacific and the 1891 Chilean Civil War.

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Saltpetre works

A saltpetre works or nitrary is a place of production of potassium nitrate or saltpetre used primarily for the manufacture of gunpowder.

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Santa María de Iquique (cantata)

Santa María de Iquique, cantata popular is a cantata composed in 1969 by the Chilean composer Luis Advis Vitaglich, combining elements of both classical and folkloric/indigenous musical traditions to produce what became known as a popular cantata and one of Quilapayún’s most acclaimed and popular music interpretations.

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Santa María School massacre

The Santa María School massacre was a massacre of striking workers, mostly saltpeter works (nitrate) miners, along with wives and children, committed by the Chilean Army in Iquique, Chile, on December 21, 1907.

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Scottish people

The Scottish people or Scots (Scots fowk; Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland.

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Senate of Chile

The Senate of the Republic of Chile is the upper house of Chile's bicameral National Congress, as established in the current Constitution of Chile.

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Sodium nitrate

Sodium nitrate is the chemical compound with the formula.

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Tarapacá

San Lorenzo de Tarapacá, also known simply as Tarapacá, is a town in the region of the same name in Chile.

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Tarapacá Province (Peru)

The Province of Tarapacá was a territorial division of Peru that existed from 1837 until 1883.

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Tarapacá Region

The Tarapacá Region (Región de Tarapacá) is one of Chile's 16 first-order administrative divisions.

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Time in Chile

Time in Chile is divided into three time zones.

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Tomasa del Real

Valeria Cisternas (born 1 December 1986), better known by her stage name Tomasa Del Real, is a Chilean singer, composer, and reggaetón artist.

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Viceroyalty of Peru

The Viceroyalty of Peru (Virreinato del Perú), officially known as the Kingdom of Peru, was a Spanish imperial provincial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained modern-day Peru and most of the Spanish Empire in South America, governed from the capital of Lima.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iquique

Also known as History of Iquique, Iquique, Chile.

, Ramón Castilla, Regions of Chile, Roberto Silva Renard, Saltpetre works, Santa María de Iquique (cantata), Santa María School massacre, Scottish people, Senate of Chile, Sodium nitrate, Tarapacá, Tarapacá Province (Peru), Tarapacá Region, Time in Chile, Tomasa del Real, Viceroyalty of Peru, War of the Pacific, Zona Franca of Iquique, 1868 Arica earthquake, 1877 Iquique earthquake, 2005 Tarapacá earthquake, 2014 Iquique earthquake, 2016 FIRS Women's Roller Hockey World Cup.

Iquique, the Glossary

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See also

1836 establishments in Chile

Capitals of Chilean regions

Coasts of Tarapacá Region

Populated places in Iquique Province

Port cities in Chile

References