Brazil-Colombia border
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The border between Brazil and Colombia is 1644,2 km long. The boundary was delimited in two treaties:
- the Treaty of Bogotá of 1907, establishing the line from the Rio Negro northwestward along the Amazon River-Orinoco watershed divide, "then generally southward along various river courses and straight-line segments to the mouth of the Rio Apaporis"[1], and
- the Tratado de Límites y Navegación Fluvial of 1928, delimiting the Apaporis-Amazon segment of the boundary as a "geodesic line identical to its Brazilian-Peruvian antecedent after Colombia gained undisputed sovereignty over the area".[2]
The border between Brazil and Colombia is the most important cocaine smuggling zone of the world.[3]
[edit] External links
- Map of the border between Brasil and Colombia
- Geodesic points of the border between Brasil and Colombia
- Health and Displacement at the border between Brasil and Colombia
[edit] References
- ^ Brazil-Colombia boundary, International Boundary Study, April 15, 1985.
- ^ Brazil-Colombia boundary, International Boundary Study, April 15, 1985.
- ^ Brazil's Amazon Basin Becomes Cocaine Highway, New York Times, April 14, 1991.
