IV Region of Coquimbo is an administrative division of Chile. It is some 400 km to the north of Santiago.
The capital and largest city is La Serena, an attractive, colonial-style beach resort. Coquimbo, a seaport with a greater industrial base than La Serena, is also a beach resort, though generally regarded as grittier, and therefore less attractive for recreational purposes.
The IV region forms the narrowest part, or 'waist' of Chile, and is hence one of the country's more mountainous regions, as the Andes range runs closer to the sea than elsewhere.
As well as tourism, the province's main industries are agriculture and fishing. Ovalle is an agricultural centre.
The Los Pelambres copper mine, near Salamanca in Choapa is one of the largest in the world with some 2,100 million tonnes of reserves.
CL-CO Coquimbo is Chile's fourth administrative region from north to south.
Coquimbo, a seaport with a greater industrial base than La Serena, is also a beach resort; generally regarded as grittier, and therefore less attractive for recreational purposes, it has undergone significant urban renewal projects in recent years and as a result it has seen an increase in tourism.
The Coquimboregion forms the narrowest part, or 'waist' of Chile, and is hence one of the country's more mountainous regions, as the Andes range runs closer to the sea than elsewhere.
Tongoy is a coastal town in Chile'sCoquimboRegion, belonging to the Commune of Coquimbo.
It is located 42 kilometers to the south of Chile's second oldest city, La Serena, next to the spa of Guanaqueros, on a rocky promontory opposite the Pacific Ocean, between the beaches of Socos (4 Km) and Grande (26 Km), to the north of the Talinay Mountain range.
On October 31, 2005, the Government of Chile decreed that Tongoy had to cease all seafood harvesting because of a red tide detected in the associated waters of the region.
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