Nuevo Tarapacá Explained

Nuevo Tarapacá
Native Name:Nuevo Tarapacá
Settlement Type:Municipality and town
Pushpin Map:Peru
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Peru
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Peru
Subdivision Type1:Department
Subdivision Name1:Loreto
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2:Maynas
Subdivision Type3:District
Subdivision Name3:Fernando Lores
Coordinates:-4.0386°N -73.1161°W
Timezone:Peru Standard Time
Utc Offset:-5
Blank Name:Climate

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

Notes and References

  1. Book: Porras Barrenechea, Raúl . Raúl Porras Barrenechea . Historia de los límites del Perú . https://web.archive.org/web/20141106111728/http://www.banrepcultural.org/sites/default/files/89740/brblaa459461.pdf . 6 November 2014 . Librería Francesa Científica y Casa Editorial E. Rosay. 79-80.
  2. Book: Núñez Atencio, Lautaro y Maldonado Prieto, Carlos. Reseña bibliográfica: El Dios Cautivo. Las Ligas Patrióticas en la chilenización compulsiva de Tarapacá (1910-1922), Sergio González Miranda, LOM Ediciones, Santiago, 2004. 2005. Chungará (Arica), Universidad de Tarapacá. 37. 1. 0717-7356. http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0717-73562005000100010&script=sci_arttext.