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Andes where streams flow down into the sands and are lost. In some of these places there is vegetation and water enough to support small settlements. The See also:

WEALTH

wealth of Tarapaca is in its immense deposits of nitrate of soda (found on the See also:

PAMPA, LA

Pampa de Tamarugal, a broad desert See also:

plateau between the coast range and the Andes, which has an See also:

ELEVATION

elevation of about 3000 ft.). The See also:

MINING

mining and preparation of nitrate of soda for export maintain a large See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population and engage an immense amount of See also:

capital. See also:

SILVER

Silver is See also:

MINED

mined in the vicinity of See also:

IQUIQUE

Iquique, the capital. The ports of the province are Pisagua, Iquique and Patillos, from which " nitrate See also:

RAILWAYS

railways " run inland to the deposits. Tarapaca was ceded to Chile by See also:

Peru after the See also:

war of 1879—1883, and was organized as a province in 1884.

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