The Chincha Islands War gets its name from an archipelago off the coast of what South American country?

From 1865 to 1879, Spain fought a war against many of its former South American colonies for control of guano-rich islands, including Peru's Chincha Islands, for which the war is named. In total, the series of coastal and naval battles cost 1,000 lives over the decade-and-a-half it was fought, and ended in a series of peace treaties with the various belligerants.

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