Bolivia–Chile border

File:Ollague_Volcano_from_Chile.jpg volcano on the Bolivia–Chile border from west.]]

File:Origen-del-silala.svg sources of Silala River in Bolivia near the Bolivia–Chile border.]]

The Bolivia–Chile border is an international border of South America. It separates Bolivia from Chile along Cordillera Occidental on the western edge of the Altiplano Plateau. There is an ongoing{{update inline|date=December 2024}} dispute about the nature of Silala River and Chile's use of its waters.[http://www.tierramerica.net/2000/1008/article.html tierraamerica.net] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727231355/http://www.tierramerica.net/2000/1008/article.html |date=2011-07-27 }}Newton, Joshua, "The Disputed Silala River: A Catalyst for Cooperation? " (2007). Water Resources Research Center Conferences. Paper 28. [http://scholarworks.umass.edu/wrrc_conf/28 link] Accessed 8 April 2011Gabriel Eckstein and Brendan M. Mulligan Water Resources Development, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 595-606, September 2011. Posted on SSRN September 1, 2011 [https://ssrn.com/abstract=1924974 link]

Accessed 8 April 2011Gabriel Eckstein. The Silala Basin: One of the Most Hydropolitically Vulnerable Basins in the World. International Water Law Project Blog [http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2011/10/27/the-silala-basin-one-of-the-most-hydropolitically-vulnerable-basins-in-the-world/ link] Accessed 8 April 2011

Since 2021 the Bolivia–Chile border has been a major point of entry of irregular Venezuelan migrants into Chile.{{Cite news|title=Crisis migratoria en el norte: El perfil de los extranjeros que han ingresado a Chile este año|url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2021/09/28/1033880/perfil-migrantes-en-chile.html|last=González|first=Carolina|last2=Jaime|first2=Davied|date=2021-09-28|access-date=2021-09-30|work=Emol|language=Spanish}} Migrants are aided in the crossing by human smugglers. Irregular migration has been particularly troublesome for the Chilean border town of Colchane.{{Cite news|title=Una crisis humanitaria desborda a pequeños pueblos del norte de Chile por la masiva llegada de migrantes venezolanos |url=https://www.infobae.com/america/america-latina/2021/02/03/crisis-humanitaria-en-pequenos-pueblos-del-norte-de-chile-desbordados-por-la-masiva-llegada-de-migrantes-venezolanos/|last=Torres|first=Cristián|date=2021-02-03|access-date=2021-09-04|work=Infobae|language=Spanish}}{{Cite news|title=Alcalde de Colchane por crisis migratoria: "Están ingresando personas con actitud reprochable, invadiendo casas y agrediendo personas"|url=https://www.tele13radio.cl/estan-ingresando-personas-con-actitud-reprochable-invadiendo-casas-y|date=2021-02-03|access-date=2021-09-20|work=Teletrece|publisher=Canal 13|language=Spanish}}

Indigenous Aymara communities live on both sides of the border.{{cite journal |last=Vergara |first=Jorge Iván |last2=Gundermann |first2=Hans |year=2012 |title=Constitution and internal dynamics of the regional identitary in Tarapacá and Los Lagos, Chile |journal=Chungara |language=es |publisher=University of Tarapacá |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=115–134 |doi= 10.4067/s0717-73562012000100009|doi-access=free }}

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