A report on British Guiana, Guyana and Guayana Esequiba
Guayana Esequiba, sometimes also called Esequibo or Essequibo, is a disputed territory of 159500 km2 west of the Essequibo River that is administered and controlled by Guyana but claimed by Venezuela.
- Guayana EsequibaSince 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana.
- British GuianaThe boundary dispute was inherited from the colonial powers (Spain in the case of Venezuela, and the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in the case of Guyana) and has been complicated by the independence of Guyana from the United Kingdom in 1966.
- Guayana EsequibaIt was governed as British Guiana, with a mostly plantation-style economy until the 1950s.
- GuyanaShortly after independence, Venezuela began to take diplomatic, economic and military action against Guyana in order to enforce its territorial claim to the Guayana Esequiba.
- GuyanaVenezuela did not accept the Schomburgk Line, which placed the entire Cuyuni River basin within the colony.
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Venezuela
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Country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil on the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east and on the east by Guyana.
The Venezuelan government maintains a claim against Guyana to Guayana Esequiba.
In 1895, a longstanding dispute with Great Britain about the territory of Guayana Esequiba, which Britain claimed as part of British Guiana and Venezuela saw as Venezuelan territory, erupted into the Venezuela Crisis of 1895.
Cuyuni River
0 linksSouth American river and a tributary of the Essequibo River.
South American river and a tributary of the Essequibo River.
It rises in the Guiana Highlands of Venezuela, where it descends northward to El Dorado, and turns eastward to meander through the tropical rain forests of the Cuyuni-Mazaruni Region of Guyana.
The Cuyuni River marks the limit of the disputed territory of Guyana Essequibo for approximately 100 km.
On January 2, 1895, the "Incident of the Cuyuni river", so named by the general Domingo Antonio Sifontes, was an armed confrontation between Venezuelans and British in the region of the river over the territorial dispute between Venezuela and British Guyana, which under Sifontes the Venezuelans left winners.