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 ARTICLE V

The activity of the United States, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile shall continue until the definitive demarcation of frontiers between Peru and Ecuador has been completed, this protocol and the execution thereof being under the guaranty of the four countries mentioned at the beginning of this article.

ARTICLE VI

Ecuador shall enjoy, for purposes of navigation on the Amazon and its northern tributaries, the same concessions which Brazil and Colombia enjoy, in addition to those which may be agreed upon in a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation designed to facilitate free and untaxed navigation on the aforesaid rivers.

ARTICLE VII

Any doubt or disagreement which may arise in the execution of this protocol shall be settled by the parties concerned, with the assistance of the representatives of the United States, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, in the shortest possible time.

ARTICLE VIII

The boundary line shall follow the points named below:

A) In the west:


 * 1) The mouth of the Capones in the ocean;
 * 2) The Zarumilla River and the Balsamal or Lajas Quebrada;
 * 3) The Puyango or Tumbes River to the Quebrada de Cazaderos;
 * 4) Cazaderos;
 * 5) The Quebrada de Pilares y del Alamor to the Chira River;
 * 6) The Chira River, upstream;
 * 7) The Macará, Calvas, and Espíndola Rivers, upstream, to the sources of the last mentioned in the Nudo deSabanillas;
 * 8) From the Nudo de Sabanillas to the Canchis River;
 * 9) Along the whole course of the Canchis River, downstream;
 * 10) The Chinchipe River, downstream, to the point at which it receives the San Francisco River.

B) In the east:


 * 1) From the Quebrada de San Francisco, the watershed between the Zamora and Santiago Rivers, to the confluence of the Santiago River with the Yaupi;
 * 2) A line to the outlet of the Bobonaza into the Pastaza. The confluence of the Conambo River with the Pintoyacu in the Tigre River;
 * 3) Outlet of the Cononaco into the Curaray, downstream, to Bellavista;
 * 4) A line to the outlet of the Yasuní into the Napo River. Along the Napo, downstream, to the mouth of the Aguarico;
 * 5) Along the latter, upstream, to the confluence of the Lagartococha or Zancudo River with the Aguarico; The Lagartococha or Zancudo River, upstream, to its sources and from there a straight line meeting the Güepí River and along this river to its outlet into the Putumayo, and along the Putumayo upstream to the boundary of Ecuador and Colombia