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Tacora

... that Tacora (pictured), Chile's northernmost volcano, was the site of substantial sulfur mining operations that were explicitly given to Chile in a 1929 treaty with Peru?
...that Bodega Bay in California was the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds?
...that the legendary Buenaventura River was imagined to parallel the significance of the Mississippi River within the western North America?
... that the 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake destroyed all the buildings of Port-au-Prince, in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (the future Haiti)?
... that the early-February 1995 winter storm was the only major nor'easter of the 1994–1995 winter?
... that the view atop Mount Kaputar in Mount Kaputar National Park, Australia, encompasses about 1/10th of New South Wales?

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