See also:

• COBIJA, or PUERTO LA MAR (the official title given to it by the Bolivian government)

COBIJA, or PUERTO LA See also:

• MAR, EARLDOM OF
• MAR, JOHN ERSKINE, 1ST OR 6TH EARL OF (d. 1572)
• MAR, JOHN ERSKINE, 2ND OR 7TH EARL
• MAR, JOHN ERSKINE, 6TH OR 11TH EARL OF (1675-1732)

MAR (the See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title given to it by the Bolivian See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government)  , a See also:

• PORT

port and See also:

• TOWN

town of the Chilean See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• ANTOFAGASTA

Antofagasta, about 800 m . N. of See also:

• VALPARAISO

Valparaiso . It is the See also:

• OLDEST

oldest port on this See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast, and was for a See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal outlet for a large See also:

• MINING

mining See also:

• DISTRICT

district . It was formerly See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the Bolivian See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

• ATACAMA
• ATACAMA, DESERT OF

Atacama and the only port possessed by See also:

• BOLIVIA

Bolivia, but the seizure of that department in 1879 by See also:

• CHILE, or CHILI (derived, it is said, from the Quichua chin , cold, or tchili, snow)

Chile and the construction of the Antofagasta and See also:

• ORURO

Oruro railway deprived it of all importance, and its See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population, estimated at 6000 in 1858, has fallen to less than 500 . Its See also:

• HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour is comparatively safe but lacks landing facilities . Smelting for neighbouring mines is still carried on, and some of its former See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade remains, but the greater part of it has gone to Tocopilla and Antofagasta . The town occupies a narrow See also:

• BEACH

beach between the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea and bluffs, and was greatly damaged by an See also:

• EARTHQUAKE

earthquake and tidal See also:

• WAVE

wave in 1877 .