

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 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 Ed�n 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



