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Chincha Islands
The Chincha Islands are a group of three small islands off the southern coast of Peru, near Pisco, whose vast deposits of seabird guano made them Peru's chief source of wealth from the 1840s. Guano dug there, largely by Chinese indentured labourers, was exported to Europe and North America as fertiliser. Spain's seizure of the islands in 1864 led to the Chincha Islands War, and by the 1870s the deposits were nearly exhausted.
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