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