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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Boundary Disputes in Latin America

María Teresa Infante Caffi

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
February 2013

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 19 September 2024

Subject(s):
Boundaries — Territory, title — Interpretation of judgments

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 Boundary and territorial disputes have been an ongoing issue in the region in the aftermath of independence of Latin American countries in the 19th century. Most of them are rooted both in colonial practice and the characteristics of the decolonization process. 2 In Hispanic America, the uti possidetis doctrine—according to which the new independent States had the right to keep what the preceding colony had possessed—was first advanced as a fundamental rule in the determination and mapping of borders. Consequently, existing inherited administrative boundaries...
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