Santa Rosa de Sucumbíos

{{Short description|Rural parish of Sucumbíos Province in Ecuador}}

Santa Rosa de Sucumbíos is an Ecuadorian town in the Putumayo Canton of the province of Sucumbíos.{{cite book | author=United States National Museum | title=Bulletin | publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office | series=Bulletin | issue=nos. 288-290 | year=1968 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X9FGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA534 | access-date=2024-02-11 | page=534}} It is located near the border with Colombia.{{cite book | last=Minnies | first=M.T. | title=Basic Data on the Economy of Ecuador | publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office | series=Overseas business reports | year=1968 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T8y7b4rMzB4C&pg=PA3 | access-date=2024-02-11 | page=3}} It is also known as Santa Rosa de Yanamaru.{{cite web|url=https://www.cndh.org.mx/noticia/masacre-en-sucumbios-ecuador-bombardeo-de-la-angostura-crimen-de-estado-y-de-lesa-humanidad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312012406/https://www.cndh.org.mx/noticia/masacre-en-sucumbios-ecuador-bombardeo-de-la-angostura-crimen-de-estado-y-de-lesa-humanidad |title=Masacre en Sucumbíos, Ecuador, bombardeo de la Angostura Crimen de Estado y de lesa humanidad, 5 jóvenes mexicanos entre las victimas |language=es |publisher=National Human Rights Commission (Mexico) |date= |archive-date=12 March 2023}}

As of 1988 there were 71 Cofán people living in the town's Indian reservation.{{cite book | last=Olson | first=J.S. | title=The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing | year=1991 | isbn=978-0-313-36879-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dE7EEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA198 | access-date=2024-02-11 | page=198}} On 1 March 2008, the number two of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Raúl Reyes, and 16 others were killed by a bombardment of the Colombian Air Force and land incursion the Colombian military, sparking the 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis.{{cite web|url=https://www.larepublica.ec/blog/2023/03/01/quince-anos-de-la-muerte-de-raul-reyes-un-punto-de-quiebre-para-las-farc/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320043943/https://www.larepublica.ec/blog/2023/03/01/quince-anos-de-la-muerte-de-raul-reyes-un-punto-de-quiebre-para-las-farc/ |title=Quince años de la muerte de "Raúl Reyes", un punto de quiebre para las FARC |language=es |publisher=La Republica |date=1 March 2023 |archive-date=20 March 2023}}