Google
Map
Corrects
Border
Error
Between
Costa
Rica and
Nicaragua
Although
the
dispute
between
Costa
Rica and
Nicaragua
over the
Isla
Calero
is still
ongoing,
Google
has
corrected
its
mistake
on its
internet
Google
Maps.
Notice
of the
correction
was made
through
its
advisor
in
Communications,
Indiana
Corrales
and can
be
confirmed
at
www.googlemaps.com.
The
Google
Map as
on
February
1, 2011
 |
The
error in
the map,
where
the Isla
Calero
shows up
on the
Nicaraguan
side,
was used
by
Nicaraguan
former
guerilla
commander
Edén
Pastora
as an
argument
to
assert
that his
army did
not
invade
Costa
Rica.
In
November,
days
after
the
discovery
of
Nicaraguan
troops
on a
piece of
swampland
that
Costa
Rica
claims
its own,
Pastora
said to
the
media
that one
has to
only
look at
the
"Cleveland
Accord"
of July
24,
1900,
that
clearly
shows
the the
border
between
the two
countries.
What
Pastora
did not
say or
accept
at the
time is
that the
natural
course
of the
river
changed
over the
years
and the
the
accord
calls
for the
border
in that
area to
be
determined
by the
flow of
the
river,
river
and the
north
bank
belonging
to
Nicaragua
and
everything
south to
Costa
Rica.
The
Google
map in
November
showed
the
border
south of
the
Calero
island,
prompting
a
dispute
between
the two
countries.
Escalating
the
dispute
was the
discovery
that the
Nicaraguans,
while
dredging
the San
Juan
river,
were
dumping
river
sediment
on the
south
side of
the
banks,
an area
that the
Nicaraguans
and
Costa
Ricans
both
claim as
theirs.
Costa
Rica,
after
failed
efforts
at
diplomacy
and
Nicaragua's
refusal
to heed
to
orders
by the
Organization
of
American
States
(OAS),
filed a
lawsuit
against
Nicaragua
with the
International
Court of
Justice
in The
Hague,
which
handed
down its
interim
decision
on March
8, 2011,
for
Nicaragua
to
remove
its
troops
and stop
environmental
damage
of the
area.
The Google Map as of April 03, 2011
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