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Tocopilla

American  
[taw-kaw-pee-yah] / ˌtɔ kɔˈpi jɑ /

noun

  1. a seaport in N Chile.


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The squirrel from Tocopilla really was a great player after all.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2014

Tocopilla, population 24,000, nicknamed Devil's Corner, has declined since industry departedbut the pollution has been slower to head out with it.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2014

"The Dance of Reality" is something of a psychological and emotional memoir, based on the filmmaker's boyhood in the small Chilean coastal town of Tocopilla, but building to something more fantastic and poetic.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2014

The ports of Iquique, Arica, Patache, and Tocopilla remained closed early on Thursday.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 3, 2014

The newcomer was a Peruvian, who had been an engineer on a railroad running through the southern part of Peru, but had left to come to Tocopilla.

From Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America by Roy Rockwood

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