This article may be confusing or unclear to readers. In particular, it conflates well-defined 19th-century border disputes with 20th and 21st-century Bolivian claims for a over an unspecified sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean.. (May 2022) |
The Atacama Desert border dispute was a dispute between Bolivia and Chile from 1825 to 1879 for the territories of the Atacama Coast due to the different views of both countries of the territory inherited from the Spanish Empire. During the dispute, both countries signed Treaties in 1866 and 1874. The dispute occurred prior to the War of the Pacific, which settled the dispute in favor of Chile. Due to the surrender of land by Bolivia, the Puna de Atacama dispute was generated between Chile and Argentina and was settled in 1899.