Tacna region

Tacna region
Symbols
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Basic data
Country	Peru
Capital	Tacna
surface	16,075 km²
Residents	341,800 (2015)
density	21 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	PE-TAC
Website	www.regiontacna.gob.pe (Spanish)
politics
Gobernador regional	Juan Tonconi Quispe (2019-2022)
Provinces of the Tacna region

Coordinates: 17 ° 55 ′  S , 70 ° 17 ′  W

The region of Tacna [ ˈtakna ] (span. Región Tacna , Quechua Taqna suyu ) is the southernmost region of Peru . It borders on the Pacific to the west, Bolivia to the east and Chile to the south . 341,800 people (2015) live in an area of ​​16,075 km². The regional capital is Tacna .

geography

The landscape is very mountainous, the snow-capped Chupiquiña mountain reaches an altitude of 5788 meters.

population

The most common mother tongues are Spanish (76%), Aymara (19%) and Quechua (3%).

Provinces

The region is divided into four provinces and 24 districts.

province	Capital
Candarave	Candarave
Jorge Basadre	Locumba
Tacna	Tacna
Tarata	Tarata

history

The province was occupied by Chile in the Saltpeter War in 1880 . Although it was awarded to Peru in the Treaty of Ancón in 1883 , contrary to the agreement, it remained occupied by Chile until 1929. The Tacna-Arica compromise by US President Herbert Hoover then led to the final return of the province to Peru.

Web links

Commons : Region Tacna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadistica e Informatica: 2017 census. Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar. Retrieved October 9, 2018 (Spanish).