Why Does Bolivia Have This Weird Border Triangle? #shorts

let's take a look at south america focus on bolivia enhance now look here to the southeast enhance hold up what's that little triangle thing that my friends is the dionysio foyanini triangle as you can see here it is made up of these lines one of which follows the stream and the other makes the 90 degree left turn until they both reach the paduai river following the river until they meet in the middle now why is this case why would borders do that well one of the countries bolivia shares these borders with is brazil and brazil's borders seem to do this all the time following rivers for a bit before jumping over to the next in a straight line as the land still hadn't been properly surveyed when the border was established in 1867 there don't seem to be any real settlements here but for bolivia this triangle is a secret blessing as part of it lies on the padaway river giving them easy brazil free access to the atlantic ocean and hence why they started construction of puerto bush on their side of the border subscribe to canibus to learn more about our world including weird border stuff

Channel: KhAnubis

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Length: 0min 59sec (59 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 22 2022