The Province of Tocopilla is located to the north of II the Region of Antofagasta, has a surface of 16,385.2 km² and has a population of 31,516 inhabitants. Its provincial capital is the city of Tocopilla.

Tocopilla
Tocopilla is a city of Chile, located in II the Region or region of Antofagasta. It is the capital of the Province of Tocopilla and both occupies an almost equidistant position between great centers of Antofagasta and Iquique, in the Great North. The City has a population of 23,986 habitantes.Literalmente, "tocopilla" in will aymará means "great gorge" or "greater gorge", voice than, from the geographic point of view, it corresponds, with all exactitude in the long run and deep gorge, today called of Barrels, and that it is by where, from a height approximated to the 2,000 ms, it is arrived at the coast in which at the moment the Port of Tocopilla is based.

History
It was founded like creek in 1843 by the French Domingo Latrille Loustauneau, time in which a small copper smelting settled, the Society Mineralógica de Tocopilla, the guaneras of Paquica End were operated, and its bay served as port of embarkation for the guano and copper. In 1870 the first boardings of saltpeter of the Corner were made I touch and, in 1871, Smaller Port by Bolivia was named. In 1877, the engineer Domingo Latrille drew up the town by order of the seated Bolivian authorities in the port of Blanket again.