INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY
IN TARAPACÁ, NORTHERN CHILE

Photographs and text by Charlotte Hursey, © 2001

Shed at Oficina Humberstone, near Iquique, Chile, photographed in 2001.
Humberstone was renamed after the Bristish Engineer James Humberstone

The Old Fire Station, Pisagua, Tarapacá, Chile, photographed in 2001.
Pisagua was a key port for the export of nitrates to Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
and was virtually a British enclave for the earlier part of this period.

More Chilean iron ...

The largest use I have seen is the cathedral in Casto on the island of Chiloe in Chile
http://www.iot.ntnu.no/~mkaut/Photos/Chile/f028_27.htm
But unfortunately they have repainted it. It was more dramatic when it was purple ... JH

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