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The Chile–Peru border is an international border of South America. It separates Chile from Peru along a line that runs about 10 km north of the Arica–La Paz railway. The border runs from the bend of coast known as the "Arica-Elbow" at the Pacific Ocean inland in northeast direction into the Andes and the Altiplano Plateau. The border was ...
The maritime dispute between Chile and Peru concerned the sovereignty of an area in the Pacific Ocean approximately 37,900 square kilometres (14,600 sq mi) in size. Peru contended that its maritime boundary delimitation with Chile was not fixed, but Chile claimed that it holds no outstanding border issues with Peru.
Chile. The dispute primarily concerned an area at sea between the parallel that crosses the end point of the land border between Chile and Peru, and the bisecting line perpendicular to the coasts of Chile and Peru. This line was formed by the overlapping of the baselines of both countries, forming a trapezoid of 67,139.4 square kilometres ...
The Atacama Desert border dispute between Bolivia and Chile (1825–1879) 1793 Map of Andrés Baleato showing Peru and Chile's border inside the Spanish Empire. When most of South America gained independence from Spain and Portugal in the 19th century the demarcation of frontiers was uncertain, particularly in remote, thinly populated portions ...
Peru claims the northern part of Chile, which is now southwest of Peru. This "triangulation" was made to fix the boundary problem between Chile and Peru. The decisions were accomplished on January 27, 1839, by the International Court of Justice [ 27 ] The War of the Pacific occurred from the years 1879–1883; [ 28 ] the war was caused because ...
Map of the maritime (since 2014) and land border between Chile and Peru. After a maritime boundary dispute, the International Court of Justice of The Hague issued its ruling in 2014, establishing the common maritime border definitively. It begins at the point where the geographic parallel passing through Landmark N° 1 intersects the low tide ...
Peru's position was that the border has never been fully demarcated, but Chile disagreed reminding on treaties in 1952 and 1954 between the countries, which supposedly defined sea border. The border problem has still not been solved.
This war gave rise to the border conflict between Peru and Ecuador and the Colombian–Peruvian war of 1932-1933. [8] Cauca War (1832): Armed conflict between New Granada and Ecuador for the sovereignty of the neighboring provinces of Pasto, Popayán and Buenaventura. It was part of the broader Colombian–Ecuadorian territorial dispute .