Ticalaco River is a

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on the Pacific slope, located in southern

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

department of Tacna Tacna (; Aymara and 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 until 1929 when it was reincorporated into Peru. Geo ...

, it runs from east to west crossing the coastal desert of Peru until its mouth at the Sama River in Tacna Province. Historically, from 1885 to 1925, the Ticalaco river was temporarily set as the political boundary between

and

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

after the

War of the Pacific The War of the Pacific (), also known by War of the Pacific#Etymology, multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Treaty of Defensive Alliance (Bolivia–Peru), Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought over Atacama Desert ...

, as Chile considered it part of the Sama River and therefore as a boundary set in the

Treaty of Ancón The Treaty of Ancón was a peace treaty signed by Chile and Peru on 20 October 1883, in Ancón, near Lima. It was intended to settle the two nations' remaining territorial differences at the conclusion of their involvement in the War of the Paci ...

. A

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of the same name was built on the river by Chile. Within the disputed area was the Tarata Department, which was ultimately returned to Peru.

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{{reflist Rivers of the Department of Tacna Chile–Peru border

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