Nuevo Tarapacá
Nuevo Tarapacá | |
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Municipality and town | |
  Nuevo Tarapacá Location in Peru | |
| Coordinates: 4°02′19″S 73°06′58″W / 4.03861°S 73.11611°W | |
| Country |  Peru |
| Department | Loreto |
| Province | Maynas |
| District | Fernando Lores |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Peru Standard Time) |
| Climate | Af |
Nuevo Tarapacá is a Peruvian town, belonging to the Maynas Province in the Fernando Lores District, which is in the Loreto Department on the banks of the Tamshiyacu River, near the district capital of Tamshiyacu.
History
It was founded by Peruvian refugees from the War of the Pacific who had first settled in Tarapacá, which was afterwards awarded to Colombia after the Salomón-Lozano Treaty. Nearby Puerto Arica, originally in Colombia, had a similar fate.[1][2]
See also
References
- ↑ Porras Barrenechea, Raúl. Historia de los límites del Perú (PDF). Librería Francesa Científica y Casa Editorial E. Rosay. p. 79-80. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 November 2014.
- ↑ Núñez Atencio, Lautaro y Maldonado Prieto, Carlos (2005). Reseña bibliográfica: El Dios Cautivo. Las Ligas Patrióticas en la chilenización compulsiva de Tarapacá (1910-1922), Sergio González Miranda, LOM Ediciones, Santiago, 2004. Vol. 37. Chungará (Arica), Universidad de Tarapacá. ISSN 0717-7356. .
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