Border incident of 1978

Border incident of 1978
Part of the Ecuadorian-Peruvian rivalry
Map showing the armed clash.
Date January 12-20, 1978 Location Sub sector of Alto Cenepa Result Peruvian victory The Peruvian Army takes control of the base and the disputed area. Peruvian troops resisted and repelled the attack.
Belligerents
Peruvian Army	Ecuadorian Army
Commanders and leaders
Carlos Vassallo Doig Luis Alarcón Llerena	?

The Alto Cenepa confrontation was an armed clash that occurred in January 1978 on the de facto border between Ecuador and Peru in the Alto Cenepa area, Cordillera del Cóndor. The conflict arose from the advance of a detachment of the Ecuadorian Army into territory administered by Peru according to the Rio de Janeiro Protocol.

History

The following armed conflicts between both countries have developed chronologically on the Ecuadorian-Peruvian border:

• Peruvian-Ecuadorian War of 1858-60 and blockade of Guayaquil due to the diplomatic impasse that arose as a result of Ecuador's decision to grant its English creditors the Amazonian territories disputed with Peru.

• Peruvian-Ecuadorian War of 1941.

• Conflict of the False Paquisha or armed conflict of the Cordillera del Cóndor in 1981.

Making a brief review of the border armed incidents in the Alto Cenepa Sub Sector of 1978 and the Armed Conflict of the Cordillera del Cóndor of 1981, given that they are related not only in the sequence of the weapons actions but because the discharged ex-combatants 1978, most of them also fought in 1981.