Native Name: | Provincia de Tarapacá |
Conventional Long Name: | Tarapacá Province |
Common Name: | Tarapacá Province |
Subdivision: | Former Province |
Nation: | Peru |
Demonym: | Tarapaqueño |
Title Leader: | Prefect |
Leader1: | Guillermo Billinghurst |
Capital: | Tarapacá |
Today: | Chile |
Year Start: | 1878 |
Year End: | 1883 |
Event1: | War of the Pacific |
Date Event1: | 1878 |
Era: | Republican Era |
Image Map Caption: | Tarapacá Province in 1851 |
P1: | Moquegua Department |
Flag P1: | Flag of Peru (1884–1950).svg |
S1: | Antofagasta Province |
Flag S1: | Flag of Chile.svg |
The Province of Tarapacá was a territorial division of Peru that existed from 1837 until 1883. The capital of this province was the city of Iquique. With the creation of the Tarapacá Department in 1878 the capital was moved to the city of Tarapacá. The province was bordered on the north by Arica Province, on the east and south by Bolivia, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. Peruvian people constituted a minority in the province as both Chileans and Bolivians were more numerous.[1]
In 1878, this province was divided into the following districts.
District | Seat |
---|---|
Tarapacá | San Lorenzo de Tarapacá |
Mamiña | Mamiña |
Chiapa | Chiapa |
Sibaya | Sibaya |
Camiña | Camiña |