Tarapacá, Amazonas Explained

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.

History

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.

Places with the same name

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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.