Cabo Pantoja
Populated center[1]
Martín Vizcarra visiting the town
Martín Vizcarra visiting the town
Cabo Pantoja is located in Peru
Cabo Pantoja
Cabo Pantoja
Location of Cabo Pantoja in Peru
Coordinates: 0°57′25″S 75°27′11″W / 0.95694°S 75.45306°W / -0.95694; -75.45306
Country Peru
DepartmentLoreto
ProvinceMaynas
DistrictTorres Causana
FoundedJune 2, 1920
Population
 (2007)
 • Total564[1]
Time zoneUTC-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

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

  1. 1 2 3 ESTUDIO DE IMPACTO AMBIENTAL DEL PROYECTO DE PROSPECCION SISMICA 2D EN EL LOTE 121 SUR Y NORTE (PDF). 2009.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. ↑ Demarcación política del Perú: recopilación de leyes y decretos (1821-1946) (in Spanish). Dirección de Estadística del Perú. 1946. p. 1285.
  4. 1 2 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.
  5. ↑ "Battle of Pantoja and Rocafuerte". Peruvian Navy. Archived from the original on 2022-02-26. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "Distrito de Torres Causana (Cabo Pantoja)". iPeru. Archived from the original on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
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