Tarapacá Department (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.^[2] 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.

The department was created on 31 October 1884 under the administration of the also new Tarapacá Province, both awarded to Chile under the Treaty of Ancón, along with Tacna. It was bordered to the north by the Pisagua Department, to the east by the Andes, to the south by the Antofagasta Department, and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.

• Tacna Province (Chile)
• Antofagasta Province
• Chilenization of Tacna, Arica and Tarapacá
• Litoral Department