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Francisco de Orellana was an Spanish explorer who discovered Amazonas River by Gonzalo Pizarro.
They named the jungle as ‘’dos amazonas’’ in memory of two aboriginal women that attacked them. -
The beginning of the Colonial period in Colombia, this came up the forestal control over Popayan, Colombia lost a great part of the Amazon region during this time.
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The first time Amazonas River was sailed by an European was Pedro Teixeira who went through the river and come back a year later in 1639 with Acuna and Artieda delegates of Peru’s Viceroy.
When explorers arrived to the Amazon Jungle, imposed a rule to cut down and burn all the trees in the area. -
In 1822 Azuay department was part of Amazon region , from Boyaca until Peru territory during the existence of the Gran Colombia.
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The rubber boom caused abuses and violence like the famous Casa Arana- Peruvian Amazon Rubber Company, this tragedy ended with the death of more than 40.000 indigenous.
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Between 1920 and 1930, Colombia and Peru legalized their borders through Salomon-Lozano agreement in which both countries split the territories between Caqueta's and Napo's rivers. Besides Colombia receives the Amazonian trapeze, conformed by Leticia, a little city founded by Peruvians
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In 1928 the amazon police station was founded ,three years later was renowned as the Intendance of the Amazon.
