Salomón-Lozano Treaty (1922)
Salomón-Lozano Treaty (1922)
The Salomón-Lozano Treaty (1922) was a controversial agreement that settled a border dispute between Peru and Colombia. The treaty ceded Colombia a narrow corridor of land between the Putumayo and Amazon rivers (and thus granted it long-desired access to the Amazon River) that included the port of Leticia. In return, Peru received land south of the Putamayo River that Colombia had received from Ecuador in 1916. The latter served Peru's interest by undermining Ecuadorian claims in the Oriente. The treaty was strongly criticized by the Ecuadorian government, which suddenly found itself confronting an antagonist where it had previously had an ally (Colombia).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
St. John, Ronald Bruce. The Foreign Policy of Peru Boulder, CO: L. Rienner Publishers, 1992.
Additional Bibliography
Valverde, Carlos A. Por la paz de América: El tratado de límites Salomón-Lozano entre el Perú y Colombia. La actitud del Ecuador / Análisis del tratado y artículos del diputado nacional por Huallaga. Lima: Talleres de La Prensa, 1928.
Peter F. KlarÉn