Tarapaca, a maritime province of North Chili, taken from Peru in 1883; its immense deposits of nitrate of soda are a great source of wealth to the country; capital Iquique (q.v.)
Population (circa 1900) given as 47,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Taranto * Tarare