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ALVAREZ RESTREPO, Julián Andrés. Historical Background of the Colombian-Nicaraguan Border Dispute and the Management of the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve. Justicia [online]. 2023, vol.28, n.43, pp.189-204.  Epub 14-Dic-2023. ISSN 0124-7441.  https://doi.org/10.17081/just.28.43.6542.

The objective of this article is to identify the historical background of the legal controversy of maritime delimitation between Colombia and Nicaragua, as well as the problems in the Environmental Management of the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve, based on the Institutional Method of Political Science, which allows us to understand the background. of the boundary dispute between these two States beyond the instruments of Public International Law and the Bilateral Treaties that were concluded at the time to award Sovereignty over the Mosquito Coast in favor of Nicaragua and the Archipelago of San Andrés Providencia and Santa Catalina A favor from Colombia. Thus, this text is not limited only to the description of historical events, but rather makes a hermeneutic of the power relations between Colombia and Nicaragua and their dispute over the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, also focuses on the environmental importance of the marine protected area declared a Seaflower Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in the year 2000, making it possible to demonstrate as a result and conclusions that both Nicaragua and Colombia must transcend a border issue to the creation of a Transboundary Biosphere Reserve of importance for the Caribbean and the world, from the Seville Strategy + 20.

Palabras clave : Border dispute; Colombia-Nicaragua; Seaflower Biosphere Reserve and Marine Protected Area.

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