Puerto Arica is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Amazonas.

Originally founded by Peruvian refugees from the War of the Pacific, it was awarded to Colombia after the signing of the July 1922 Salomón-Lozano Treaty.

[1][2] These refugees would later resettle in the settlement of the same name in northern Peru.

Puerto Arica has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.

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