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The Astoreca Palace in Iquique, reflecting the influence of Spanish colonial architecture. Iquique (Spanish pronunciation:) is a port city and commune in northern Chile, capital of both the Iquique Province and Tarapacá Region. It lies on the Pacific coast, west of the Pampa del Tamarugal, which is part of the Atacama Desert.
Until October 2007, the Province of Iquique was composed of 7 communes: Alto Hospicio, Camina, Colchane, Huara, Iquique, Pica and Pozo Almonte, but since then, with the creation of the Region of Arica and Parinacota, much of the province, specifically the municipalities of Huara, Camina, Colchane, Pozo Almonte and Pica, was transferred administratively to Tamarugal Province, leaving Iquique ...
It comprises two provinces, Iquique and Tamarugal. It borders the Chilean Arica y Parinacota Region to the north, Bolivia's Oruro Department and Potosí Department on the east, Chile's Antofagasta Region to the south and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The port city of Iquique is the region's capital.
Alto Hospicio is a Chilean municipality and commune located next to Iquique, in the Iquique Province, Tarapacá Region.It is a fast-growing popular area in the heights of Iquique and has a population of 94,254 according to the preliminary result of the 2012 census.
Map of Chile. This is a list of cities in Chile. A city is defined by Chile's National Statistics Institute (INE) as an "urban entity" [note 1] with more than 5,000 inhabitants. This list is based on a June 2005 report by the INE based on the 2002 census which registered 239 cities across the country. [1]
Diego Aracena International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Diego Aracena) (IATA: IQQ, ICAO: SCDA) is an airport serving Iquique, capital of the Tarapacá Region in Chile. The airport is on the Pacific coast 48 kilometres (30 mi) south of the city.
The walled enclosure of ZOFRI, truck loading place Bolivians, Peruvians and Paraguayans. The Zona Franca de Iquique, known by the acronym Zofri (in English Free Zone of Iquique), is located in the coastal port city of Iquique, in Iquique Province of the Tarapacá Region, northwestern Chile.
Humberstone and Santa Laura are located 45 km east of the city of Iquique in the Atacama Desert in the Tarapacá Region in northern Chile. [3] Other saltpeter works or "nitrate towns" include Chacabuco, Maria Elena, Pedro de Valdivia, Puelma and Aguas Santas.