HISTORICAL REVIEW   PISAGUA. This place of the Northem coast of the Chilean Pacific Ocean has a tragic history, strangely obsessive and repeatedly linked with death, Ioneliness a and oblivion. . - Presence of early precolumbian burial sites (from before 1.000 B.C). - 1600. During the Spanish administration is founded the old Pisagua town. The cemetery is placed at the church courtyard. - 1831, Sept. 03. The Government of Perú qualified Pisagua and Mejillones as harbours to export nitre. - 1835. A bigger and safer bay is placed at south, this is the current Pisagua. A new cemetery is placed at north side of the town. - 1868, August13. A heartquake and tidal wave devasted to south of Perú. The city was destroyed and half population was dead. - 1868. Later, the city was plagued with yellow fever which ravagued the population. - 1870. The government of Perú qualified Pisagua as main harbour. Census : 2000 inhabitants. - 1879. War between Chile and Perú. The Chilean army bombarded two times the harbour; many deads in the battles. - 1879, November 02. The Chilean army assaulted Pisagua. It is considered the bloodest battle of the war. Appears little cemeteries for winners and defeateds during the battle. - 1891. Chilean civil war. Place of battles In two times (january 23 and February 06). - 1903, April 25. The town was destroyed by fire - 1905, April 17. A new fire destroyed the town. - 1905. Outbreak of the bubonic plague. Survivors run away from Pisagua. - 1913. Outbreak of the bubonic plage again. Survivors run away from Pisagua. - 1914. The first world war caused the beggining of economic decline of the harbour. - 1938. A new fire destroyed the town. - 1947. Pisagua was a concentration camp for politic prisioners, and place of deportation and elimination of dozens of homosexuals under the government of Gabriel Gonzalez Videla. - 1956. Government of Carlos Ibañez del Campo. Pisagua was a concentration camp for politic prisioners again. - 1973. After September 11. Under the regime of General Augusto Pinochet, Pisagua was a concentration camp for politic prisioners again. - 1990. The final episode is the finding in June 02 of a common grave for 21 prisioners executed by shooting between September 11 of 1973 and February 1974, under the government of general Augusto Pinochet.