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==In popular culture== [[File:Tresfronteras.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Panorama from the [[Paraguay]]an side of the border.]] * The Triple Frontier (or here referenced as the Tri-Border Area) is featured as the backdrop for the ''[[NCIS (TV series)|NCIS]]'' episode "[[List of NCIS episodes#ep40|An Eye for an Eye]]", as NCIS Special Agents [[Anthony DiNozzo]] and [[Caitlin Todd]] must travel down to this area of southern Paraguay in order to investigate a professor involved in a case in which a pair of blue eyeballs were mailed to a murder victim. * ''[[The Mission (1986 film)]]'' is set in this region in the 1750s. * The Triple Frontier is also featured as the location for ''[[The Unit]]'' episode "[[The Unit (season 2)#Episode list|The Kill Zone]]", where Unit operators must rescue a member of their counterpart team, Team Charlie, during a hostage situation. * In the [[Vince Flynn]] novel ''Extreme Measures'', a terrorist group funded by al-Qaeda trains and plans to execute terrorist attacks on America while living in the Triple Frontier. * In the 2006 film ''[[Miami Vice (2006)|Miami Vice]]'', [[James "Sonny" Crockett|Sonny Crockett]] and [[Rico Tubbs]] first meet with the drug cartel they are trying to infiltrate in the Tri-Border Area. * Featured in the ''[[Human Target (2010 TV series)|Human Target]]'' episode "[[List of Human Target episodes|The Return of Baptiste]]", as the location where a kidnapped reporter is held by a crime lord. The accents and geography shown in the episode are inaccurate for this region. * Included as a major setting of the location for the [[Sebastian Rotella]] novel ''Triple Crossing''.<ref>{{Cite book|isbn = 978-0316105309|title = Triple Crossing: A Novel|last1 = Rotella|first1 = Sebastian|date = 2011-08-10| publisher=Little, Brown |url-access = registration|url = https://archive.org/details/triplecrossingno00rote}}</ref> * Season 1, episode 7 ("Borderlines") of ''[[SEAL Team (TV series)|SEAL Team]]'' revolves around a mission to the Tri-Border Area. * Season 2, Episode 11 (Day I Met the Devil) Magnum P.I. Magnum is called up from the reserves for a top secret mission, but his friends are stunned when they learn that the mission is a lie and Magnum has been set up. (TV-14 L, V) Air Date: Dec 13, 2019 * The events of the 2023 Brazilian police drama Criminal Code is set in the Triple Frontier concerning cross border crime between Paraguay and Brazil<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22459586/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1 | title=DNA do Crime | website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>
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