Subject: Re: Is any part of Peru North of the Equator?<br/>
Date: Jul 29, 2002 @ 21:07<br/>
Author: ps1966nl (&quot;ps1966nl&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1654854322">Grant wrote:<br/>
&quot;(...)The interesting bit started when I looked in Biger, who has a <br/>
rather different run for the border, albeit farther south. I&#39;ve <br/>
attached a bmp scan of his map. He describes this as the border <br/>
following the Putumayo &quot;... to its confluence with one of its <br/>
tributaries, the Güeppi River. The boundary line follows that river <br/>
upstream westwards for about 25 miles (40km) and meets the boundary <br/>
junction with Ecuador northwest of the small Colombian town of Cabo <br/>
Reyes.&quot; This makes no sense in terms of the map, which shows the <br/>
border striking off overland and meeting the Güeppi at the tripoint.<br/>
This is compounded by the entry for the Colombia-Ecuador border which<br/>
states: &quot;The eastern terminus of the boundary is located on the the <br/>
Güeppi River, west of the small town of Cabo Minacho (Ecuador). It <br/>
follows the river downstream eastwards to its confluence with the <br/>
Putumayo River ...&quot;<br/>
Taken together, these seem to imply that the two borders run <br/>
alongside each other in the Güeppi River between the tripoint (40km <br/>
upstream) and the confluence with the Putumayo (where most maps <br/>
apparently plot the tripoint). <br/>
So ... in answer to your question, I think that Peru doesn&#39;t extend <br/>
north of the Putumayo River, which doesn&#39;t go north of the equator <br/>
along the Colombia-Peruvian border. But beyond that I haven&#39;t the <br/>
foggiest notion where the border goes!<br/>
Anyone?&quot;<br/>
<br/>
This map in Biger is strange indeed. I think that the tripoint is <br/>
indeed at the confluence of Putumayo and Güeppí rivers. Cf. e.g. <br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.tsi.com.pe/libroblanco/comunicaciones.doc">http://www.tsi.com.pe/libroblanco/comunicaciones.doc</a> , where it says <br/>
that Peru possesses the right bank of the Putumayo between the Güeppí <br/>
and the Yahuas. Cf. also the map at <br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.adonde.com/historia/1999_peru_ecuador.htm">http://www.adonde.com/historia/1999_peru_ecuador.htm</a> . This map is <br/>
different from the DeLorme one, by the way, at the spot where an area <br/>
previously in dispute is shown (and the difference at DeLorme&#39;s map <br/>
is not due to this dispute, it seems)!<br/>
<br/>
Cf. also <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.rree.gob.pe/polexter/peruecu/mapas/mapa09.gif">http://www.rree.gob.pe/polexter/peruecu/mapas/mapa09.gif</a> (a <br/>
Peruvian foreign office site on Peru/Ecuador relations reg. the border<br/>
(<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.rree.gob.pe/polexter/peruecu/mapas/default.htm)">http://www.rree.gob.pe/polexter/peruecu/mapas/default.htm)</a>); <br/>
unfortunately most of the maps here can&#39;t be reached because the <br/>
links are broken).<br/>
<br/>
Biger&#39;s version of things to me is questionable, to say the least. <br/>
But I have to concede that I only have seen things being presented in <br/>
the Peruvian way on the web...<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.</div>