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Amazonas (Spanish pronunciation:) is a department and region in northern Peru bordered by Ecuador on the north and west, Cajamarca on the west, La Libertad on the south, and Loreto and San Martín on the east. Its capital is the city of Chachapoyas.
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 ...
3rd Jungle Infantry Battalion (3º Batalhão de Infantaria de Selva) in Tefé "Rio Negro" Frontier Command/ 5th Jungle Infantry Battalion (Comando de Fronteira - Rio Negro e 5º Batalhão de Infantaria de Selva) in São Gabriel da Cachoeira; 22nd Jungle Signals Platoon (22º Pelotão de Comunicações de Selva) in Porto Velho
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America.
Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (Red Eclesial Panamazónica, REPAM) is a network with a thousand organizations from the Amazon "to create a development model that privileges the poor and serves the common good".
Piedra de la Tortuga Monument in Amazonas. The entire state of Amazonas is included in the so-called Guiana Shield. Its relief is included from the margins of the Orinoco to the Marahuaca peak with 2832 m. The highest peak in the state is the Tapirapecó at 2992 meters above sea level, in the Serranía La Neblina National Park on the border ...
Peruvian Amazonia (Spanish: Amazonía del Perú), informally known locally as the Peruvian jungle (Spanish: selva peruana) or just the jungle (Spanish: la selva), is the area of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, east of the Andes and Peru's borders with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and Bolivia. This region comprises 60% of the country and is marked ...
The Amazon Defense Coalition (Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia) is an Ecuadorian non-governmental organization created on May 16, 1994, and approved by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Social Welfare on June 4, 1998, under ministerial reference #535. [1] It is led by the environmental and human rights activist Luis Yanza. [2]