SAN MIGUEL DE SUCUMBÍOS, APOSTOLIC PREFECTURE OF. - It is located in the north-eastern regions of Ecuador and entrusted to the Discalced Carmelites.

The territory was part of the apostolic vicariate of Napo (v.), which bordered on Colombia. In 1916 the governments of Ecuador and Colombia fixed the boundaries between the two countries. It therefore became necessary to make the civil and ecclesiastical boundaries coincide. On 16 April 1924 Propaganda ceded to the apostolic vicariate of Napo the area of the apostolic prefecture of Caquetá that had passed to Ecuador, and erected as the apostolic prefecture of S. M. de S. the northern part of Napo lying between the Rio Sucumbios and the political boundary with Colombia to the north-east and the Rio Aguarico and Rio Napo to the south-west.

It has an area of 67,120 sq. km. with a population of 13,200 Catholics and 2,500 pagans. There are 4 missionaries and 4 nuns. Elementary schools 11.

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BIBL.: Arch. di Prop. Fide, pos. prot. n. 671/24; AAS, 16 (1924), pp. 269-70; MC, 1950, p. 50.

Saverio Paventi

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