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History In the sixteenth century, the Bay of Coquimbo barely registered as a bay for the low traffic navigation and administratively it was a Spanish landing of the town of San Bartolomé de La Serena. At that time there was a stable population in its environment so it could not function as a port, a prerequisite for managing a commercial or defense enclave established by the Indian Cedulario in their ordinances created by Charles V, King of Spain. 
Not until 1810, produced the Independence of Chile, Coquimbo that is more open as a port. This creates an opening to trade in all the world flags to generate a free port unprecedented. Extractive mining activity in northern Chile is at its peak, copper, and silver nitrate, whose funds managed in a high percentage of United Kingdom makes it generates a strong flow of migrants into this side of the southern world.
Family groups from the United Kingdom, Germany, France and United States come to settle in the bay. Unlike traditional Hispanic cities, with urban design grid, these groups are involved foreign plot of the hill leading to an attractive center with ties to the sea.
They will be born the first terraces of Coquimbo, the connections are generating a flat area to another in height and come the first strokes of a uniform architecture and balanced relationship with nature and landscape.
The immigrant community itself is entering its style architecture and design in this port that helps to consolidate this expansion taking place in parallel with the social and commercial life.
The English Neighborhood News
The pastel colors of walls and balconies overlooking the port of Coquimbo District in English, are part of the remodeling sector that suffered for so many years left. In order to preserve the cultural heritage of the commune, the town identified as a sector Area Historic Preservation, which recognizes an era, one way, a common language, an area linked to the port and their influence is visible in the architecture port of the city.
For this project that has created a coordinated and implemented an immediate action plan to recover and strengthen the sector in the architectural and cultural tourism, defining the sector as a unique and recognizable in the city, highlighting its urban and own space elements of the neighborhood, which give character and identity.
Nearly fifty pubs, restaurants and clubs opened in 2004, its doors to the community and tourists visiting the area, becoming an attractive alternative in the region for recreation. Since the old oak trees that keep the best red wines for your palate to some antique furniture that adorn special corner of the house. Fine chocolate, pastries, coffee and tobacco, travel agencies and boat rides and fishing are the multiple offers of a new sector.
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