Iquique

Iquique, a seaport in Peru, in the province of Moquegua, 3-1/2 miles west by south of Tarapaca. Its chief exports are nitrate and borax, and the imports barley, flour, liquors, coal, machinery, iron, and steel. It was destroyed by earthquakes in 1868 and 1877, and in 1879 blockaded, bombarded, and captured by Chili.