Monumento a la Guerra del Pacífico, Barranco, Lima, 2017.The war of the Pacific was a disaster for P
Monumento a la Guerra del Pacífico, Barranco, Lima, 2017.The war of the Pacific was a disaster for Perú as it was for Bolivia. Both were trounced by Chilean forces and lost significant pieces of territory when the better armed and trained Chilean forces invaded, striking as far north as Lima. At the end of the war, Perú lost its southernmost zone on the Pacific coast, while Bolivia became a landlocked state, loosing its access to the sea to Chile. This somewhat forlorn monument on a high promontory overlooking the Lima conurbation and the ocean south of the city commemorates that war. -- source link
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