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During the Amazon rubber boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the land around the Putumayo became a major rubber-producing region, where Julio César Arana's Peruvian Amazon Company maintained a production network centered on the nearby city of Iquitos.
Mar 27, 2024
Mar 14, 2024 · The Putumayo River is a major tributary of the Amazon River and forms part of the border between Peru and Colombia. Between the 16th and early 18th century ...
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Oct 24, 2024 · Putumayo was created as a department of the Colombian state in 1991 and has a total area 24,885 km² with a population of approx. 375,000 inhabitants (50% of ...
Feb 16, 2024 · A modest empire of handicrafts stores that cropped up in New York, New Jersey, Boston, and Washington DC starting in 1975.
Aug 31, 2024 · From the late 19th to mid-20th century, the Amazon rainforest faced intensive rubber exploitation, dubbed “rubber fever,” that caused immense suffering and ...
May 9, 2024 · The Putumayo has been inhabited for centuries and the continuity of the struggles of indigenous peoples since the arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th century ...
Oct 4, 2024 · Arana was the main perpetrator of the Putumayo genocide: where his company exploited and exhausted Indigenous populations to death, in exchange for rubber.
May 9, 2024 · I started Putumayo World Music in 1993 with the goal of helping introduce people to the music of other cultures. The concept was to create a series of ...
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Jun 29, 2024 · Putumayo is considered indigenous territory as it hosts a variety of communities such as the Ingas, Kamsa, Paez, Siona, Muruy, and Coreguaje.
Oct 11, 2024 · The Putumayo - the devil's paradise, travels in the Peruvian Amazon Region and an account of the atrocities committed upon the Indians therein (1913)