Japurá

Course

The river rises as the Caquetá River in the Andes in southwest Colombia.

The Caquetá River rises near the sources of the Magdalena River, and augments its volume from many branches as it courses through Colombia.

It flows southeast into Brazil, where it is called the Japurá. The Japurá enters the Amazon River through a network of channels. It is navigable by small boats in Brazil.

West of the Rio Negro, the Solimões River (as the Amazon's upper Brazilian course is called) receives three more imposing streams from the northwest—the Japurá, the Içá (referred to as the Putumayo before it crosses over into Brazil), and the Napo.

History

Slave raids against the indigenous people of the Caqueta/Japurá River valley had persisted for at least 100 years prior to Roger Casement's investigation of the Putumayo genocide in 1910. While citing a book published by English lieutenant Henry Lister Maw, Casement noted that these slave raids had been continued by Brazilian and Portuguese men. The territory of the Peruvian Amazon Company extended between the Putumayo and Japurá Rivers during the rubber boom.

. The Boras people were primarily dedicated to rubber extraction around the stations of Abisinia, Santa Catalina and La Sabana correspondingly managed by Abelardo Agüero, Arístides Rodríguez and his brother Aurelio.