Atacama Border Dispute (Paperback)

The Atacama border dispute was a dispute between Chile and Bolivia in the 1800s that ended in the transfer to Chile of all of the Bolivian Coast and the southern tip of Bolivia's ally Peru through the Treaty of Ancn with Peru and the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1904 between Chile and Bolivia after the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). Some consider the dispute is still ongoing as Bolivia still claims a sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean. The conflict takes name from the Atacama Desert on which lies the disputed territory. From the Chilean annexation of the Bolivian coast in 1879 the Puna de Atacama dispute dispute arose due to Bolivian transfers of land to both Argentina and Chile, this spin-off dispute was settled in 1899.