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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 ...
Ecuadorian War of Independence (1820–1822) Guayaquil Gran Colombia Chile Peru Río de la Plata Spain: Victory. Incorporation of the Real Audiencia of Quito into Gran Colombia. 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
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 ...
Ecuadorian–Peruvian War (1941): Border war fought between July 5–31, 1941. During the war, Peru occupied the western Ecuadorian province of El Oro and parts of the Andean province of Loja. Although the war took place during World War II, it is unrelated to that conflict, as neither country was supported by either the Allies or the Axis.
The River has been subject to several border disputes between Peru and Ecuador; the most notable was the Cenepa War in 1995. The Awajún (Aguaruna People), the locals around the Cenepa River Basin, have had issues with the legal certainty of the River due to its cultural significance and resources. The Cenepa River has been impacted by the ...
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]
The gun - a 9-milimeter pistol - blazed a violent trail even by the standards of one of Ecuador's most dangerous neighborhoods, the Nueva Prosperina precinct of Guayaquil. Shell casings from ...
The Ecuadorian–Peruvian territorial dispute was a territorial dispute between Ecuador and Peru, which, until 1928, also included Colombia. [Note 1] The dispute had its origins on each country's interpretation of what Real Cedulas Spain used to precisely define its colonial territories in the Americas.