Modern Puerto Pisagua has few inhabitants, and the old jail has become a hotel. The plaza boasts a monument to the fallen in the battle of 2-11 1877duiring the War of the Pacific, in which many Chilean soldiers climbed the steep hills, laden with equipment, to surprise a Peruvian post.

The architecture, seen in this administration building, in town retains the look of the profitable center it once was.

Viaje Por El Desierto De Huara, Tarapacá y Pisagua

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