Tacna is the largest of four

provinces A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outsi ...

in the

Department of Tacna Tacna (; Aymara & Quechua: Taqna) is the southernmost department and region in Peru. The Chilean Army occupied the present-day Tacna Department during the War of the Pacific from 1885 to 1929 when it was reincorporated into Peruvian soil. Geogr ...

in southern

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located on the border with

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

and

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. Its capital is

Tacna Tacna was known for its mining industry; it had significant deposits of sodium nitrate and other resources. Its economic prosperity attracted a wave of immigrants from Italy. Today, their Italian Peruvian descendants live in the city and many of t ...

Geography

The Tacna Province is bounded to the north by the

Jorge Basadre Province Jorge Basadre Province is one of four provinces in the Tacna Region in southern Peru. Its capital is Locumba. The province was created on April 21, 1988 (by law No. ''24799'') and is named after Jorge Basadre Grohmann, the country's most notable hi ...

and the

Tarata Province Tarata is one of four provinces in the Tacna Region in southern Peru. Its capital is Tarata city. Geography The Tarata Province is bounded to the north by the Candarave Province and the Puno Region, to the east by Bolivia, and to the south a ...

, to the east by

and

, to the south by Chile and to the west by the

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. The Barroso mountain range traverses the province. Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below:

Political division

The province is divided into 11

districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

( es, distritos, singular: ''distrito''), each of which is headed by a mayor (''alcalde''): *

Alto de la Alianza The Alto de la Alianza Monumental Complex ( es, Complejo Monumental Alto de la Alianza) is a historical monument and landmark complex in the south of Peru, near the city of Tacna. The monument is located in the site of the Battle of Tacna, a ba ...

* Calana * Ciudad Nueva * Coronel Gregorio Albarracín Lanchipa * Inclán * Pachía * Palca * Pocollay * Sama *

La Yarada-Los Palos District The district of La Yarada Los Palos is one of the 11 districts that constitute the Tacna Province, province of Tacna in the Tacna Region, in the south of Peru. History On November 7, 2015, the President of Peru promulgated Law No. 30358, law cre ...

Ethnic groups

The province is inhabited by

indigenous Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention *Indigenous (band), an American blues-rock band *Indigenous (horse), a Hong Kong racehorse ...

citizens of

Aymara Aymara may refer to: Languages and people * Aymaran languages, the second most widespread Andean language ** Aymara language, the main language within that family ** Central Aymara, the other surviving branch of the Aymara(n) family, which today ...

and

Quechua Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru *Quechuan languages, a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language **So ...

descent.

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...

, however, is the language which the majority of the population (80.88%) learnt to speak in childhood, 16.34% of the residents started speaking using the

Aymara language Aymara (; also ) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over one million speakers.The other native American languages with more than one million sp ...

and 2.55% using

(

2007 Peru Census The 2007 Peru Census was a detailed enumeration of the Peruvian population. It was conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática on Sunday, October 21, 2007. Its full name in Spanish is XI Censo de Población y VI de Viviend ...

).inei.gob.pe
INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007

Sources

External links

*
Official website of the Tacna Province
Provinces of the Tacna Region {{Tacna-geo-stub

Geography

Political division

Ethnic groups

See also

Sources

External links