# Caleta Patillos (CL CAL)

**UN/LOCODE:** CL CAL  
**Country:** Chile  
**Water Body:** South Pacific Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Very Small  
**Harbor Type:** Coastal (Natural)  
**GPS:** -20.7333, -70.2000

Servicios Portuarios Patillos (SPL), a subsidiary of Sociedad Punta de Lobos within the K+S group, runs Caleta Patillos as a dedicated bulk salt-loading terminal about 60 km south of Iquique in Chile's Tarapacá region. Its two facilities and two berths load bulk carriers of up to roughly 100,000 tonnes, each at around 25,000 tonnes per day, drawing on the nearby Salar Grande / Punta de Lobos salt deposit. The cargo pier offers about 11 m alongside, with anchorage depths above 20 m. There are no container or general-cargo services here: Patillos is a single-commodity export port for industrial salt. Material reaches the quay by conveyor and road from the open-pit mine rather than by rail. Forwarders handling containers or mixed freight for the region use Iquique, the nearest multipurpose port.

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