Tarapacá

The town was part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, and then of the Peruvian state, and saw itself the protagonist of the Battle of Tarapacá during the War of the Pacific. Despite the Peruvian victory, the troops located in the area relocated to nearby Arica, allowing the Chilean Army to occupy the area, creating a disadvantage, and was afterwards given to Chile under the Treaty of Ancón.[1][2] After the war, the Peruvian refugees who had formerly inhabited the town were sent by the Peruvian government to the Loreto region, in order to populate the area. The areas in which they settled were called Tarapacá and Puerto Arica, in Northern Amazonas. However, after the Salomón–Lozano Treaty, the area was ceded to Colombia, with the original inhabitants moving south to Maynas, next to the Napo River, founding another Puerto Arica and Tarapacá.

• Ramón Castilla, President of Peru.
• Antonio Gutiérrez de la Fuente, military leader and provisional President of Peru.
• Bautista van Schouwen, Chilean marxist, founder of the Revolutionary Left Movement

• Battle of Tarapacá
• War of the Pacific
• Tarapacá Department (Peru)
• Tarapacá Province (Peru)

• Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales de Chile: Iglesia y campanario del pueblo Tarapacá
• Patricio Núñez Henríquez: La Antigua aldea de San Lorenzo de Tarapacá, Norte de Chile in Chungara: Revista de Antropología Chilena, publ. Universidad de Tarapacá, No. 13 (Nov 1984), pp. 53-65