Cabo Pantoja
Cabo Pantoja | |
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 Martín Vizcarra visiting the town | |
  Cabo Pantoja Location of Cabo Pantoja in Peru | |
| Coordinates: 0°57′25″S 75°27′11″W / 0.95694°S 75.45306°W | |
| Country |  Peru |
| Department | Loreto |
| Province | Maynas |
| District | Torres Causana |
| Founded | June 2, 1920 |
| Population (2007) | |
• Total | 564[1] |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (PET) |
Cabo Pantoja, formerly Rocafuerte[2] and Pantoja,[3] is a town in the Torres Causana District of the Loreto Department in Peru.
History
[edit]The town, located in the confluence between the Napo and Aguarico rivers, was the location of an Ecuadorian outpost named Rocafuerte and a small Peruvian outpost who bore the current name used by the town, both established during the era of the territorial dispute between Ecuador and Peru.[4] Subsequently, it saw action during several skirmishes, but most notably during the 1941 Ecuadorian–Peruvian War in the Battle of Pantoja and Rocafuerte.[5][6][7] After the Peruvian victory, it was renamed Cabo Pantoja, after Peruvian Cabo Víctor Pantoja, killed in action during a minor battle between Ecuador and Peru over the dispute in 1904.[4][8] The Ecuadorian inhabitants relocated as a result of the battle and established Nuevo Rocafuerte.[2]
Today the town hosts a small health center and schools, as well as infrastructure related to water, telecommunication and health services.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c ESTUDIO DE IMPACTO AMBIENTAL DEL PROYECTO DE PROSPECCION SISMICA 2D EN EL LOTE 121 SUR Y NORTE (PDF). 2009.
- ^ a b Valdivieso, Juan Diego; Meneses, Ricardo (2014-01-23). "Nuevo Rocafuerte, la frontera 'viva' vive lentamente". El Comercio. Archived from the original on 2020-08-08. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
- ^ Demarcación política del Perú: recopilación de leyes y decretos (1821-1946) (in Spanish). Dirección de Estadística del Perú. 1946. p. 1285.
- ^ a b Tauro del Pino, Alberto (2001). Enciclopedia ilustrada del Perú: OJE-PEN (in Spanish). PEISA. p. 1939. ISBN 9972401499. Archived from the original on 2022-04-01. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
- ^ "Battle of Pantoja and Rocafuerte". Peruvian Navy. Archived from the original on 2022-02-26. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
- ^ Macías Núñez, Edison (2012). EL EJÉRCITO ECUATORIANO EN LA CAMPAÑA INTERNACIONAL DE 1941 Y EN LA POST GUERRA (in Spanish). Quito: Centro de Estudios Históricos del Ejército. pp. 130, 148–156. Archived from the original on 2022-02-26. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
- ^ Monteza Tafur, Miguel (1979). El Conflicto Militar del Perú con el Ecuador. Editorial Universo S.A. pp. 124–166, 240–246. Archived from the original on 2022-04-01. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
- ^ "Distrito de Torres Causana (Cabo Pantoja)". iPeru. 3 May 2017. Archived from the original on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2022-04-01.