ARGENTINA - BRAZIL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2012
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ARGEVTINA - BRAZIL
(Ireland, pp. 13, 15-17)
Bernabg L6pez, Argentine minister of foreign relations, Santiago
Derqui, Argentine minister of the interior, and Josg Maria da Silva
Paranhos, Brazilian minister to the Argentine Confederation, signed at
Parang on December 14, 1857, a treaty, with a,priitocoi, which provided
that (Article 1) the boundary should be the Uruguay, whose right or
western bank belonged altogether to the C
bank to Brazil, from the mouth of its
the Pepirf-Guazd, Where Brazilian po
Urugugy; thence by the waters of
thence by the highest land to t
Its entrance into the Iguazd
river to its confluence wit
Pepirf-Guazd, San Antoni
Brazil and on the west
the first two rivers
confluence of the
nations. Articl
spoken of in
by the demar
and Spain.
treaty o
rivers
more
federation and left or eastern
butary Quarahim to the mouth of
essions occupied both banks of the
Pepirf-Guazd to its chief source;
principal head of the San Antonio, to
the Rio Grande de Curityba and by that
the Parang. The land divided by the rivers
and Iguazd should belong on the east to
o the Argentine Confederation, the waters of
or all their length and of the Iguazd from the
n Antonio to the Parang only being common to both
2 specified that the Pepirf-Guazd and the San Antonio
icle 1 should be those which were recognized in 1759
tion under the treaty of January 13, 1750, between Portugal
Opposition developed in Argentina, and Congress approved the
September 24, 1858, only with an amendment providing that the
epirf-Guazd and San Antonio were those which were to be found
o the east with these names as appeared in the demarcation
erred to in Article 2. On this modification the parties could not
gree, and ratifications of the treaty were never exchanged.
(pp. 15-17)
On February 6, 1895, the United States secretary of state delivered
to the representatives of the parties in Washington the award of
President Grover Cleveland dated February 5, 1895, which decided that
the boundary line was the rivers Pepirf (also called Pepirf-Guazd) and
San Antonio, the rivers designated by Brazil, denominated the westerly
system, supported by the report of the commissioners in 1759, by the
report of the joint survey made in 1788 under the treaty of 1777, and by
the map and report of the survey made in 1887 by the joint commission under
the treaty of 1885. The award thus favorable to Brazil was loyally
accepted by Argentina. On August 9, 1895, there was signed at Rio de
Janeiro a protocol for carrying out the award by the placing of boundary
posts along the line, and on October 1, 1898, a further protocol for
placing markt at the mouth of each of the two rivers. Actual laying
down of the boundary continued to prove difficult, and on October 6, 098,
there was signed at Rio de Janeiro a treaty to complete the establishment
of the line by amicable and direct agreement. The mixed commission,
further instructed by a convention signed at Rio de Janeiro on
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August 2, 1900, labored at setting up marks from november 3, 1900,
to October 6, 3904, and the work so far was approved by an act signed
at Rio de Janetro on October 4, 1910, accepting the line as marked
from the mouth of the Quarahim on the left or Brazilian (east) bank of
the Uruguay, continuing by the thalweg of the Uruguay and the Pepirf-
Guazd by the highest land between its principal source and that of
the San Antonio and thence by the thalweg of the San Antonio and the
Iguazd to the confluence of the Igauzd with the Parang, and assigning to
Argentina twenty-nine and to Brazil twenty-four of the small islands or
groups of islands in the Uruguay from the confluence of the Quarahim
to the mouth of the Pepirf-Guazd, and to Argentina three and to Brazil
two of the groups in the Igauzd below the confluence of the San Antonio.
On the .same ? 1 October 4, 1910, there was signed at Buenos Aires a
conventio omplementary to the treaty of October 6, 1898, which
p
..f led. that the line at the confluence of the Quarahim with the
Uruguay should pass between the right (west) bank of the Uruguay and
the Brazilian island of Quarahim, thence by the median line of the
Uruguay to opposite the Argentine mouth of the Miriflay, and thence by
the thalweg of the Uruguay to the confluence of the Pepirf-Guazd. In
commemoration of the arbitral award the town of Clevelandia was
established by Brazil, twenty-five miles west of Palmas. J.P. Rodrigues
Alves, Brazilian ambassador to Argentina, and Antonio Sagarve, acting
Argentine minister of foreign relations signed at Buenos Aires on
December 27, 1927, another complementary convention regulating the
frontier at Quarahim south of the Brazilian island, but this convention
still is pending approval by the Argentine Congress and has not been
ratified.
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