Which South American country has land borders with Colombia and Peru?
Geography of Peru Geography of Peru Peru is a country on the central western coast of South America facing the Pacific Ocean. It lies wholly in the Southern Hemisphere, its northernmost extreme reaching to 1.8 minutes of latitude or about south of the equator. Peru shares land borders with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia and Chile, with its longest land border shared with Brazil. Area: <br>Peru has a total land area of 1,279,999 km² and a total water area of 5,220 km². Maritime claims: <br>"continental shelf:" <br>"territorial sea:" Land use: <br>Only 3% of Peru's land is arable, with 0.5% being suitable for permanent crops.
Gran Colombia–Peru War turned over to the Viceroyalty of Peru, a situation that would endure until 1819 (and the formation of Gran Colombia, which included Guayaquil.) Even before the battles for the freedom of the South American colonies were over, Simón Bolívar established the "uti possidetis juris" principle as the basis for the territorial demarcation of the new nation-states that were to be born of the ancient colonial jurisdictions. In essence, the principle, as it applied to the international borders of that time, meant that the borders of the new countries should correspond to the Spanish administrative borders as they were in 1809.