The Vásquez Cobo–Martins treaty, also known as Treaty of Bogotá, was a

treaty A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement between actors in international law. It is usually made by and between sovereign states, but can include international organizations An international organization or international o ...

between

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

and

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

denoting the

Brazil–Colombia border The border between Brazil and Colombia is long. The boundary was delimited in two treaties: *the Vásquez Cobo-Martins treaty of 1907, establishing the line from the Rio Negro (Amazon), Rio Negro northwestward along the Amazon River-Orinoco wat ...

; It was signed in

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

by their respective representatives, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Alfredo Vásquez Cobo, and the

Resident Minister A resident minister, or resident for short, is a government official required to take up permanent residence in another country. A representative of his government, he officially has diplomatic functions which are often seen as a form of indir ...

on Special Mission to Colombia, Enéas Martins. It was ratified by Colombia by means of ''Law 97 of 1907'' and the Exchange of Ratifications took place on 20 April 1908 in

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

. The treaty established the border from the Rio Negro northwestward along the

Amazon River The Amazon River (, ; es, Río Amazonas, pt, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river system in the world in comparison to the Nile. The headwaters of t ...

Orinoco The Orinoco () is one of the longest rivers in South America at . Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers , with 76.3 percent of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the wor ...

watershed divide, "then generally southward along various river courses and straight-line segments to the mouth of the

Apaporis River The Apaporis River is a river of the Vaupés Department, Colombia. It is a tributary of the Caquetá or Japurá River. In the last stretch before the river joins the Caquetá it forms part of the boundary between Colombia and Brazil. See also ...

References

External links

Vásquez Cobo-Martins treaty (Portuguese)

Vásquez Cobo-Martins treaty (Spanish)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vasquez Cobo-Martins Treaty Treaties concluded in 1907 Treaties of the First Brazilian Republic Treaties of Colombia Boundary treaties 1907 in Colombia 1907 in Brazil Treaties entered into force in 1908 Brazil–Colombia border