Talk:Campaign of the Manuripi region

Difference between the State of Acre (Brazil) and the historical region of Acre

Some users have been asking me how Peru recognized, with the Polo-Bustamante treaty, part of the Acre territory as Bolivian. It is difficult to explain it in detail here, but to summarize it, first of all you have to know how to differentiate between the current Brazilian State of Acre, with the historical region called Acre. According to researcher Clara López Beltrán: “The Acre region, historically linked to elastic rubber, was an unknown territory, ignored and unexplored until the beginning of the 20th century or shortly before. This geographic space is located in the heart of the South American continent within the Amazon basin; Today it is part of the national territories of Bolivia —in the departments of Pando, Beni and north of La Paz—, of Brazil —in the states of Acre, Amazonas and Rondonia—, and it is also part of a broader region called, by the historiography, Andean Amazon ”(The translation is mine). You can read the article –in Spanish– here: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/267885497.pdf. Acre, at that time was a region that also disputed Peru, along with Brazil and that was the trigger for the Acre War. But from this treaty, Peru renounced not only its territorial claims in the Brazilian Acre, but also in the Bolivian one. --Ají Picante (talk) 22:06, 5 August 2020 (UTC)