List of wars involving Peru

This article is a list of military conflicts in which Peru played an important role spanning from 1532 to the present.

Conflicts before Republican Era

Republican Era

Conflict Peru and Peruvian Allies War against Results Head of State
of Peru
Peruvian intervention in Bolivia of 1828  Republic of Peru  Republic of Colombia
Bolivia
Peruvian Victory
  • Treaty of Piquiza. Withdrawal of troops from the Gran Colombia of Bolivia. Term of Bolivarian influence in Bolivia.
Jose de la Mar
Agustín Gamarra
Gran Colombia–Peru War
(1828 - 1829)
 Republic of Peru  Republic of Colombia
Bolivia
Peruvian Victory
  • Signing of the Larrea-Gual Treaty. Naval victory of Peru. Land campaign unfinished and without decisive results. Dissolution of the Great Colombia.
  • Peru recognized the Colombian annexation of Guayaquil and Colombia recognized implicitly Peruvian sovereignty of Tumbes, Jaen and Maynas
Jose de la Mar
Agustín Gamarra
Salaverry-Santa Cruz War
(1835-1836)
 Peru-Bolivia Confederacy  Peru Defeat
  • Victory of Santa Cruz and Foundation of the confederation.
War of the Confederation
(1836 - 1839)
Peru-Bolivian Confederation Chile
Peruvian dissidents
Argentina
United Restorative Army victory
  • Dissolution of the Confederation.
Various
Iquicha War
(1839)
 Peru
 Chile
Iquichanos Peru & Chile victory
  • Signature of the Treaty of Yanallay in which the Iquichanos submit to the Republic of Peru.
  • Isolation of the caudillo Antonio Huachaca.
Agustín Gamarra
Peruvian-Bolivian War of 1841-1842
(1841-1842)
 Republic of Peru  Bolivia Cease-fire
  • Treaty of Puno. Bolivian expulsion from southern Peru
  • Peruvian army expelled from Bolivia
  • Bolivian army expelled from Peru
Agustín Gamarra
Ecuadorian–Peruvian territorial dispute of 1857–60
 Republic of Peru  Republic of Ecuador Military Victory of Perú
  • Subscription of the Treaty of Mapasingue.
Ramon Castilla
Chincha Islands War
(1864 - 1866)
 Peru
 Chile

Nominal participation:
 Ecuador
 Bolivia

Spain Indecisive, both sides claimed victory
  • The state of war is maintained between the belligerent parties until the signing of an indefinite armistice in 1871.
  • Subsequently, Spain and the South American allies signed peace treaties separately: Peru (1879), Bolivia (1879), Chile (1883) and Ecuador (1885).
Mariano Ignacio Prado
War of the Pacific
(1879 - 1883)
 Peru
 Bolivia
 Chile Defeat
  • Chilean forces capture Lima
  • Chilean forces occupy Tacna and Arica
  • Tacna reincorporated to Peru in 1929.
  • Bolivia loses its access to the sea
Mariano Ignacio Prado

es:Luis La Puerta de Mendoza
Nicolás de Piérola
Francisco García Calderón
Lizardo Montero Flores

Miguel Iglesias
Forgotten campaign of the Manuripi region
(1910)
 Peru  Bolivia Statu Quo Ante Bellum
  • Death of the bolivian captain Lino Echevarria.
Conflict of the Pedrera
(1911)
 Peru  Colombia Peruvian Victory
  • The Colombian troops were evicted from La Pedrera by Peruvian troops
Augusto B. Leguía
Colombia–Peru War
(1932 - 1933)
 Peru  Colombia Statu quo ante bellum
  • Ratification of the Solomon-Lozano Treaty
Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro
Óscar R. Benavides
Ecuadorian–Peruvian War
(1941)
 Peru  Ecuador Peruvian Victory
Manuel Prado Ugarteche
Paquisha War
(1981)
 Peru  Ecuador Peruvian Victory
  • Statu Quo ante bellum of 1942
Fernando Belaúnde Terry
War against Terrorism
(1980–2017)
 Peru Shining Path

MRTA (1982–1997)

Peruvian Victory
  • Sendero Luminoso last groups still active on high jungle
Fernando Belaúnde Terry

Alan García
Alberto Fujimori
Valentín Paniagua
Alejandro Toledo
Ollanta Humala

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Cenepa War
(1995)
 Peru  Ecuador Statu quo ante bellum
  • Acta of Brasilia
  • The border was closed, as indicated in the Rio de Janeiro Protocol of 1942, and the end of all differences between the two nations was declared
Alberto Fujimori


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