Brazil–Colombia border

Map op the Brazil–Colombia border area

The border between Brazil and Colombia is 1644,2 km long. The boundary was delimited in two treaties:

The border between Brazil and Colombia has been an important transit point for cocaine.[2] In August 2000, Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso established a $10 million "Plan Cobra" to secure the border against narcotics traffickers moving into the unpatrolled upper Amazon River basin.[3]

Border towns

External links

References

  1. 1 2 Brazil-Colombia boundary, International Boundary Study, April 15, 1985.
  2. Brazil's Amazon Basin Becomes Cocaine Highway, New York Times, April 14, 1991.
  3. Johnson, Stephen (26 April 2001). "Helping Colombia Fix Its Plan to Curb Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Insurgency". The Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 26 April 2006.

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