Putumayo genocide

The Putumayo genocide (Spanish: Genocidio del Putumayo) is the term which is used in reference to the enslavement, massacres and ethnocide of the Indigenous population of the Amazon at the hands of the Peruvian Amazon Company, specifically in the area between the Putumayo River and the Caquetá River during the Amazon rubber boom period from 1879 to 1912.

Putumayo genocide
Part of the Amazon rubber boom
Huitoto natives in conditions of slavery
LocationColombia and Peru
Date1879 (1879) – 1912 (1912)
Attack type
Slavery, Genocidal rape, torture, Crimes against humanity
Deaths40,000 to 250,000+
PerpetratorsPeruvian Amazon Company
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