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The Boundary between Ecuador and Peru

Author: Ronald Bruce St John

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Throughout Latin America, the exact borders of the newly-formed republics at the outset of the independence era were often a highly controversial subject. In consequence, bitter territorial disputes, often involving vast tracts of land and considerable wealth, soon developed. Many of these territorial questions were in fact boundary disputes resulting from the failure of the Spanish government to delineate its administrative units during the colonial period with precision. The emotionally charged and highly involved boundary dispute between Ecuador and Peru, sometimes referred to as the Zarumilla-Marañón dispute, was one of the last unresolved issues dating from this period. After complicating and disrupting inter-American relations throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the dispute was finally settled with the signing of the package of accords known as the Brasilia Agreements in October 1998.

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