Brazil-Colombia border
Encyclopedia
The border
between Brazil
and Colombia
is 1644,2 km long. The boundary was delimited in two treaties:
The border between Brazil and Colombia has been an important transit point for cocaine.
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Border
Borders define geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, sovereign states, federated states and other subnational entities. Some borders—such as a state's internal administrative borders, or inter-state borders within the Schengen Area—are open and...
between Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
and Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
is 1644,2 km long. The boundary was delimited in two treaties:
- the Vásquez Cobo-Martins treatyVásquez Cobo-Martins treatyThe Vásquez Cobo-Martins treaty was a treaty between Brazil and Colombia denoting the Brazil–Colombia border; It was signed in Bogotá by their respective representatives, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Alfredo Vásquez Cobo, and the Resident Minister on Special Mission to Colombia,...
of 1907, establishing the line from the Rio Negro northwestward along the Amazon RiverAmazon RiverThe Amazon of South America is the second longest river in the world and by far the largest by waterflow with an average discharge greater than the next seven largest rivers combined...
-OrinocoOrinocoThe Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at . Its drainage basin, sometimes called the Orinoquia, covers , with 76.3% of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia...
watershed divide, "then generally southward along various river courses and straight-line segments to the mouth of the Apaporis River", 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".
The border between Brazil and Colombia has been an important transit point for cocaine.
Border Towns
:- TabatingaTabatingaTabatinga is a municipality in the Três Fronteiras area of Northwestern Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Its population was 45,293...
, Benjamin ConstantBenjamin Constant, AmazonasBenjamin Constant is a town and municipality located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Its population was 26,191 and its area is 8,793 km² ....
, Lauarete, Vila Bittencourt, IpirangaIpirangaIpiranga for "red river") is an historical district located in the subprefecture of the same name of São Paulo, Brazil. The name Ipiranga comes from the river of the same name located in the region, which means "red river" in a Tupí–Guaraní language...
, CucuiCucuiCucui is a town in the Amazonas state of Brazil, on the border with the Amazonas state of Venezuela. The town is located slightly east of the Rio Negro, which flows through the Brazil–Colombia–Venezuela tripoint and forms the border between Colombia and Venezuela. The town serves as a checkpoint...
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- Leticia, TarapacáTarapacá, AmazonasTarapacá is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Amazonas.-External links:...
, La PedreraLa Pedrera, AmazonasLa Pedrera is a town and municipality in the southern Colombian Department of Amazonas.-References:*...
, MitúMitúMitú is the capital city of the department of Vaupés in Colombia. The town of Mitu is the most remote Capital of Department in Colombia.In November, 1998 an estimated 1,900 FARC guerrilla members of the Eastern Bloc of the FARC-EP tried to take over the town by force, against 120 National Police...
, TarairaTarairaTaraira is a town and municipality located in the Vaupés Department, Republic of Colombia.-References:...
, YavaratéYavarateYavarate is a town and Department Municiality in the department of Vaupés, in Colombia. It is located to the of the department's capital, Mitú, on the banks on the Vaupés and Maya rivers, on the border with Brazil. The closest town is Lauareté, an indigenous village located in Brazil, across the...
, La GuadalupeLa GuadalupeLa Guadalupe is a town and municipality in the Guainía Department, Republic of Colombia. La Guadalupe limits with to north of Departmental Corregimeinto of San Felipe, The south and west with Brasil, and east with Venezuela...
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