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Plaza Satamayor - Heroes of Iquique

Plaza Satamayor - Heroes of Iquique
A statue erected in honor of the bloodiest massacre in Chilean Naval History, a battle wherein Captain Arturo Prat blockaded the critical Peruvian port of Iquique in 1879, then proceeded to get rammed and sunk by a huge, ironclad Peruvian battleship without so much as breaking a sweat. Unfortunately, they were supposed to be fighting Argentina. Oops.

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