Crossword-Solution: TARAPACA
We have 2 clues for the answer “TARAPACA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Province of Chile. | 1 answer |
| CHILEAN province | 18 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TARAPACA (5)
From hence we went to a certain port called Tarapaca; where, being landed, we found by the sea side a Spaniard lying asleep, who had lying by him thirteen bars of silver, which weighed 4,000 ducats Spanish.
For some years Chilean companies and speculators, aided by foreign capital mainly British in origin, had been working deposits of nitrate of soda in the province of Antofagasta, or "the desert of Atacama," a region along the coast to the northward belonging to Bolivia, and also in the provinces of Tacna, Arica, and Tarapaca, still farther to the northward, belonging to Peru.
Accordingly he proceeded to pick a quarrel by ordering the deposits in Tarapaca to be expropriated with scant respect for the concessions made to the Chilean miners.
Peru was forced to cede Tarapaca outright and to agree that Tacna and Arica should be held by Chile for ten years.
Chile did not wish to give the region up, lest by so doing it might expose Tarapaca to a possible attack from Peru.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1949).