for the first time exploited the salt. Indeed, the first shipment of nitrate to France and the U.S. was made, according to Francisco Risopatr�n Riso Patron Francisco , in 1836, from Pisagua Viejo.
By declaring war on Peru Chile and Bolivia, the city was bombed by the Chilean navy on April 18 , 1879, in the framework of the so-called Maritime Campaign . As a result thereof, the population was burned.
Nitrate Office of Pampa aquifers
On November 2, 1879, the port was used by the Chilean forces as a spearhead to invade the Peruvian province of Tarapaca, coveted for its rich and vast nitrate deposits in exploitation. The military action was in an amphibious landing allowing access by Chilean troops into the Peruvian department of Tarapac� and the beginning of what history calls Tarapac� Campaign .
After the Treaty of Ancon , Santiago and Lima signed in 1883, the port moved integrally Pisagua Chilean administration.
Image of bombing the Peruvian port of Pisagua by the Chilean Navy on April 18, 1879
Chilean Pisagua
In the following years, after being completely rebuilt after a fire in November 1879, it acquired an urban Pisagua, with straight streets and blocks more or less regular. 10Francico Risopatr�n said of her, around 1890: " The buildings are made of wood , painted in various colors, and comfortable, its cobbled streets clean and mostly ".He added that: "It has beautiful buildings, both fiscal and private, dock, customs, government, primary schools, fire department, telegraph, telephone, submarine cable, post office, civil registration, parish church, urban rail, rail nitrate and an active trade . " 11 Indeed, the rapid reconstruction and development of the city arose from its privileged position as a major point of shipment of Chilean nitrate, as well as supply of goods and services (customs, municipal, hospital, school tax, civil registration , church, post office) to nitrate northern region.
It
