User:FelipeFritschF/Questão do Pirara

The Pirara Question was a diplomatic conflict between Portugal (later Brazil) and the United Kingdom, over a territorial dispute over the Pirara region in the the Guianas. Initiated in the early 19th century after a series of skirmishes and prolonged diplomatic and trade disputes, the conflict ended in 1904, with Brazil ceding part of the territory after mediation by Italian king Victor Emmanuel III. It is now split between the country of Guyana and the Brazilian state of Roraima.

Out of all Brazilian territorial disputes, Pirara was the only instance in which Brazil lost territory. Up until then, the nothern Amazon British-Brazilian border was divided by the basin of the Amazon and Essequibo rivers. Later, it'd provide the basis for tensions in the Raposa Serra do Sol indigenous reserve.

Com a perda da área, o Brasil não só deixou de ter acesso à bacia do Essequibo, através do Rupununi, como deu à então Guiana Inglesa (atual República Cooperativa da Guiana) acesso à bacia Amazônica através dos seus afluentes Tacutu e Maú.