Tarapacá, Amazonas | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality and town |
Mapsize: | 250px |
Pushpin Map: | Colombia |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Colombia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Colombia |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | Amazonas Department |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 14 February 1909 |
Area Total Km2: | 1443 |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 4195 |
Coordinates: | -2.8789°N -69.7439°W |
Timezone: | Colombia Standard Time |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Blank Name: | Climate |
Tarapacá is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Amazonas. As of 2015, the population comprised 4,195 people.
The town is served by Tarapacá Airport.
Originally founded by Peruvian refugees from the War of the Pacific, it was awarded to Colombia after the Salomón-Lozano Treaty signing in July 1922.[1] [2] These refugees would later resettle in the settlement of the same name in northern Peru.