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ATACAMA, a province of northern Chile, bounded N. and S. respectively by the provinces of Antofagasta and Coquimbo, and extending from the Pacific coast E. to the Argentine boundary line. It has an area of 30,729 sq. m., lying in great part within the Atacama ...

ATACAMITE, a mineral found originally in the desert of Atacama, and named by D. de GaUizen in 1801. It is a cupric oxychloride, having the formula CuCl2.3Cu(OH)2, and crystallizing in the orthorhombic system. Its hardness is about 3 and its specific gravity 3- ...

TACOMA, a city and sub-port of entry, and the county-seat of Pierce county, Washington, U.S.A., on Commencement Bay of Puget Sound, at the mouth of Puyallup river, about 80 m. from the Pacific coast, and about 23 m. S.S.W. of Seattle. Pop. (1890) 36,006; (1900

... province of ANTOFAGASTA has an area of 46,611 sq. m. lying within the desert of Atacama and between the provinces of Tarapaca and Atacama. It is rich in saline and other mineral deposits, the important Caracoles silver mines being about 90 m. north-east of the ...

... right to grant asylum to belligerent forces is now governed bv articles 57, 58 ATACAMA— ATALANTA and 59 of the regulations annexed to the Hague Convention of the 29th of July 1899, relating to the Laws and Customs of War on Land. (See WAR.) (T. BA.)

... d forming the eastern rampart of the great central plateau of which the Puna de Atacama coven a large part. The elevated plateaus between these range* are semiarid and inhospitable, and are covered with extensive saline basin*, which become lagoons in the wet ...