Guanaqueros is a

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an town in the

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Coquimbo Coquimbo is a port city, commune and capital of the Elqui Province, located on the Pan-American Highway, in the Coquimbo Region of Chile. Coquimbo is situated in a valley south of La Serena, with which it forms Greater La Serena with more than ...

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. It is located in Guanaqueros Bay, 12 kilometers northeast from

Tongoy Tongoy is a Chilean coastal town in the commune of Coquimbo in Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region. It is located to the south of Chile's second oldest city, La Serena, next to Guanaqueros beach, on a rocky promontory opposite the Pacific Ocean, ...

. It is a fishermen's cove, which spreads along the eastern rim of the ''

Cerro Guanaqueros Cerro is Spanish for "hill" or "mountain". Toponyms ;Bolivia: * Cerro Rico, the "Rich Mountain" containing silver ore near Potosi, Bolivia ;Brazil: * Cerro Branco, a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul *Cerro Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, a municip ...

'' ("Guanaqueros Hills"), and with its houses built facing to the north in the direction of the

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. Guanaqueros is situated next to an extensive ocean harbor of the same name, where dozens of recreation centers are located, along with inns, hostels and other accommodations for the tourist industry. The town lies next to the ''Carretera Panamericana'' ("

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") and, according to the 2002

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, it has a population of 1,395 inhabitants. The town's first inhabitants were the

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s, who lived off the ocean and who mined and made tools from the area's copper deposits.

References

* Guanaqueros. From the Spanish-language Wikipedia. Retrieved April 24, 2006

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