Antofagasta is a city of celebration. No difference in Iquique carnivals and the spring festival was misplaced while. Consequently, the only date that brings us together is 14 February, the day that Chilean troops took the city by launching the so-called Pacific War or War of Guano-Peruvians and Bolivians. However
February 14, according to two historians, is not a representative date. "Historically it is important because it marks the control of Chile in this area that was landlocked Bolivia. Consequently, it has no relation to the urban origin in the city, there are other significant dates in order to understand this city, is born, grows and develops and not the effect of a war, "said the historian Hector Ardiles.
More critical is the position of Floreal Recabarren, historian and former mayor. In his view commemorate this event is to remember the beginning of a conflict and this is comparable to "bury the blade to a wounded and stir into the body."
In his view, the conclusion of Antofagasta, it should be in sometime in October. When I was mayor celebrated the centennial of the settlement in October. Nobody knows the key date and day of settlement, "he said.
Initiative
The commemoration of February 14 came at the initiative of Juan de Dios Carmona, mayor of the era between 1948 and 1949 -. "He posed as the Day of Antofagasta with the support of the Armed Forces. There was dissent. But despite the arguments that qualify as a date conflict, imposed in 1948 to conclude on 14 February. Later there was a great parade, "recalled Recabarren Floreal.
To Ardiles, the important thing was the fact that opportunity to find a source. "At that time there was a concern about how to celebrate: the origin of the commune, the province of the municipality or the mayor's office. But still there was no dispute about the settlement and that came clarify-decades later-when the mayor of Floreal Recabarren-between 1964 and 1967 - took place a historic contest for the origin of Antofagasta.
The importance of this historic contest, as Ardiles, is that first discussed the origin of the city with great difficulty. "This allowed us to know that in Antofagasta was settled in 1866, since October."
Ephemeris
Important dates in the history of Antofagasta are for Ardiles, for example, the decree that formed the province Antofagasta, 1888, that the municipality should appear to January 25, 1872, after neighbors organize, the October 22, 1868 when the city lot and January 1869, when the Bolivian government evacuated the decree gave Antofagasta the current name. Antofagasta
name is a separate story. "Formerly the area was known as The White Rock Chimba or the white guano," says Ardiles. Both names are coastal and have to see where Antofagasta wraps and make sense. " However
Bolivia, through the time of the controversial President Mariano Melgarejo (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano_Melgarejo), gave the official name by putting highland designation related to the Andean worldview. "Antofagasta Andean dialect means: great place to salt."
"So the connotation of the name, is to highlight through the Andean world view that we are part of Bolivia," he said Ardiles.
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