Place:Tres Fronteras
Tres Fronteras (Portuguese: Três Fronteiras, English: "Three Borders") is an area of the Amazon rainforest in the Upper Amazon region of South America. It includes and is named after the tripoint at which the borders of Brazil, Peru, and Colombia meet. The upper Amazon River flows through the area.
Geography
The area is noted for its natural beauty. Cities in Tres Fronteras include Tabatinga (in Brazil), Leticia (in Colombia), and Santa Rosa de Yavari (in Peru) on an island in the Amazon River.
Much of the land is within the Alto Rio Negro and Yanomami reserves, a combined 18,000,000 hectares (44,000,000 acres; 180,000 km2).[1]
Population
According to Fabricio Amorimm from Fundação Nacional do Índio, the region contains "the greatest concentration of isolated groups in the Amazon and the world".[2][3]
Crime
A UN report stated that the hotspot in which a reporter was killed "probably [had] among the densest concentration of organized crime groups on earth."[4] In June 2022, The Guardian reporter Dom Phillips and his companion Bruno Pereira were killed in Tabatinga, in the Vale do Javari.[5]
See also
- Amazon basin
- Murder of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips
- Triple Frontier (film)
- Upper Amazon topics
References
- ↑ Challenges and Opportunities in Protecting Amazon Tri-Border Regions, 8 August 2023, JUAN DIEGO CÁRDENAS, MARÍA FERNANDA RAMÍREZ AND SETH ROBBIN], Insight Crime
- ↑ Phillips, Tom (22 June 2011). "Uncontacted tribe found deep in Amazon rainforest". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/22/new-tribe-discovered-amazon?INTCMP=SRCH.
- ↑ Monica Yanakiew (5 Jun 2023). "One year after killings in Brazil’s Amazon, tensions run high: Defence of Indigenous lands in Brazil still poses many dangers, a year after killing of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips.". Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/5/one-year-after-killings-in-brazils-amazon-tensions-run-high.
- ↑ "Amazon facing ‘urgent’ crime crisis after gutting of protections, says drugs tsar: Brazilian government warning comes as UN report says that flourishing organized crime groups are driving a boom in environmental devastation". The Guardian. 28 June 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/28/organized-crime-drives-environmental-amazon-devastation.
- ↑ Tom Phillips; Jonathan Watts (1 June 2023). "Brazilian Amazon at risk of being taken over by mafia, ex-police chief warns: Alexandre Saraiva gives alert on organised crime in region ahead of anniversary of killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/28/organized-crime-drives-environmental-amazon-devastation.
External links
- Human mobility in the triple border of Peru, Colombia and Brazil, Márcia Maria de Oliveira, São Paulo May/August 2006 (abstract in English, text in Portuguese).
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