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claims of tlie conterminous republics, it has an area of at least 400,000 square 

 miles, between three and four times that of the British Isles. But according to 

 Paz Soldan it would comprise no less than 745,000 square miles, if the whole 

 space were included which Peru demands on her own interpretation of the treaties. 



Fig. 107. — Feontiees of Peeu. 

 Scale 1 : 21,000,000. 



Present Peruvian Ecuadorean Peruvian Territory disputed 



territory. teiritory claimed territory claimed by Colombia 



by Peru. by Ecuador. and Peru. 



Peruvian province provisionally Chilian Territory disputed by 



held by Chili till 1894. Conquest. Colombia and Brazil. 



310 Miles. 



In the north she claims the course of all the Amazonian affluents rising in 

 Ecuador from the head of the navigation as indicated by the first cascades or 

 rapids. 



The frontier would thus extend to that of Colombia north of the Rio Napo, 



