Amazon Trapeze

At this end of the department, which extends like a peninsula between Brazil and Peru, is the departmental capital of Leticia.

The Amazon Trapeze, which emerges from a vaster territory to the north, is one of two parts of the Amazonas Department in Colombia.

The trapeze was originally part of a larger disputed territory between Colombia and Peru, through which the former sought a direct exit towards the Amazon River.

During the territorial dispute, the Peruvian government in the town of Leticia established the Colony of Leticia, also known as the Colony of San Antonio, a project through which the area would be inhabited by Peruvian citizens and thus oppose Colombian claims over the territory.

[4] Once hostilities between both states met a final end, the first arrival of Colombian settlers took place in 1930.