Talk:Putumayo River

Rubber
This river is known as Putumayo here in Peru, and I don't think it's known as Içá in Colombia or Ecuador because it's not Spanish (the "ç" letter is not used in Spanish). The name Içá is Portuguese and thus is most likely the one that is used in the Brazilian part of the river. Maybe the editors should take a look at this? --Tuomas  hello 20:54, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

Rubber company stuff: Relevant to an article on the river? References?--Motorsportsmark 16:17, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

You're right this "During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, rubber companies, seeking cheap labour, enslaved the Amerindian peoples of the area around the Içá and forced them to work as seringueiros, rubber tappers, collecting the sap of the rubber tree to be processed into goods such as tyres for cars. These seringueiros were paid little or nothing and tortured or even murdered if they failed to fulfill their rubber quotas. Those who escaped were hunted down like animals. When the British consul to Peru headed an investigation into the treatment of the Native American workers in the rubber trade along the Içá, the report he made to the Peruvian government shocked the entire world. The rubber companies engaged in slavery were liquidated by the government, and their executives arrested." should be somwhere else...--(( F3rn 4nd0 ))(BLA BLA BLA)  05:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Redirect
"Rio Putumayo" Should redirect here. I don't know how to do it; can sombody please do it? --Lophoole 17:05, 29 March 2007 (UTC)