The Navy Port in Talcahuano, Chile

Here is a photo of the Chilean Navy port in Talcahuano, Chile, that I had taken this photo last January 2010.

It is one of the best harbors along the Chilean coast. Talcahuano is and important navy base. It has a large fishing industry, and fish are canned and exported. It also has extensive dry- dock facilities, metallurgical plants and petroleum refineries, and it handles the exporting of the agriculture products of the interior.

Anchored on Talcahuano harbor is the Peruvian warship "Huasca", whose capture decisively established Chilean naval supremacy during the war of the Pacific (1875).

A lot of children from the navy families attended the La Asuncion school in La Higueras.

This area was under tight control by the navy when the military take over of the Moneda, the palace of the President Allende on September 11, 1973 in Santiago, Chile with the bombing of the Moneda, early that morning.

A very sad day for Chile and a day that I presonally will never forget.