Gabriel Abaroa, the first president of the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (LARAS)
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Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve in Sur Lípez province, Potosí department, Bolivia
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Eduardo Abaroa (1838–1879), also spelled Avaroa, a Bolivian hero of the War of the Pacific
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Ronald MacLean Abaroa, a Bolivian politician and leading international expert in anti-corruption programs
Luksic was born in Antofagasta, to a Bolivian mother, Elena Abaroa (great-grandchild of Bolivian War of the Pacific hero Eduardo Abaroa), and a Croatian immigrant father, Policarpo, who had arrived in Chile from the Adriatic island of Brač in 1910 and had made a living in the nitrate industry.
Efasa is administered by Bolivian Railway Investors, a subsidiary of Antofagasta PLC, which owns the railway from the frontier between Abaroa and Ollagüe down to the Chilean Pacific coast ports of Antofagasta and Mejillones.
Before joining the Latin Recording Academy, Abaroa had served as CEO of Wireless Latin Entertainment and IFPI Latin America.
MacLean-Abaroa was the first democratically elected mayor of La Paz, Bolivia, and was reelected four times between 1985 and 1991 to this office.