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The Cenepa War or Third Ecuadorian-Peruvian War (26 January – 28 February 1995), also known as the Alto Cenepa War, was a brief and localized military conflict between Ecuador and Peru, fought over control of an area in Peruvian territory (i.e. in the eastern side of the Cordillera del Cóndor, Province of Condorcanqui, Región Amazonas, Republic of Perú) near the border between the two ...
Gran Colombia–Peru War (1828–1829) Gran Colombia Peru: Stalemate. Status quo ante bellum; War of Cauca (1832) Ecuador: New Granada: Defeat. Treaty of Pasto War of the Supremes (1839–1841) New Granada Ecuador: Supremes Victory: Capture of Manuel Briones (1851 or 1852) Sweden-Norway Ecuador: Pirates Victory: Ecuadorian–Peruvian War of ...
The Tiwintza detachment (also known as the Tiwinza detachment or Falso Tiwinza) was an Ecuadorian military outpost involved in the Cenepa War in Peruvian territory, between Ecuador and Peru in 1995. The post had been a focal point of the war over disputed border claims; the settlement of the war resulted in the post and remaining Peruvian, but ...
Between 1983 and 1987, Ecuador imported an estimated US$460 million of arms, primarily from Italy, France, the United States, and Britain. In 1995, during the Cenepa War against Peru, Argentina gave to Ecuador 6,500 tons of rifles, cannons, anti-tank rockets, and ammunition in a controversial move. [33]
A 1995 photo of Ecuadorian Special Forces during a troop relief by helicopter, near the Tiwintza area where fighting was particularly intense during the Cenepa War. The final major military operation involving Ecuadorian forces was the Cenepa War in which both sides, yet again, claimed to be fighting inside their own territory. One of the ...
The Alto Cenepa confrontation was an armed clash that occurred in January 1978 on the de facto border between Ecuador and Peru in the Alto Cenepa area, Cordillera del Cóndor. The conflict arose from the advance of a detachment of the Ecuadorian Army into territory administered by Peru according to the Rio de Janeiro Protocol .
Ecuador: Type: Army: Size: 25,650: Part of: Military of Ecuador: Engagements: Independence War 1820 Battle of Pichincha 1822 Gran Colombia–Peru War 1829 Ecuadorian–Peruvian War 1857–1860 Battle of Guayaquil 1860 Ecuadorian-Colombian War 1863 Chincha Islands War 1864 Ecuadorian–Peruvian War 1941 Paquisha War 1981 Cenepa War 1995: Website ...
A war with Peru (named the Cenepa War, after a river located in the area) erupted in January–February 1995 in a small, remote region, where the boundary prescribed by the 1942 Rio Protocol was in dispute. The Durán-Ballén Administration can be credited with beginning the negotiations that would end in a final settlement of the territorial ...