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.
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]