United Provinces of New Granada
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United Provinces of New Granada Provincias Unidas de la Nueva Granada | |||||||||||
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• Independence declared | July 20, 1810 | ||||||||||
• First Congress of New Granada | 1811 | ||||||||||
• Confederacy formed | October 4, 1812 | ||||||||||
| September 3, 1816 | |||||||||||
| Currency | Real | ||||||||||
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The United Provinces of New Granada was a country in
la Patria Boba ("the Foolish Fatherland"). It was formed from areas of the New Kingdom of Granada, roughly corresponding to the territory of modern-day Colombia. The government was a federation with a parliamentary system
, consisting of a weak executive and strong congress. The country was reconquered by Spain in 1816.
Government
The Triumvirate
After two attempts at establishing a congress, the State of
Secretary of State; and Custodio García Rovira, Governor of the province of Socorro. At the time of the nomination, the nominated officials were exercising their jobs, so they were temporarily replaced by members of Congress: Joaquín Camacho, Representative for the Tunja Province, José María del Castillo y Rada and José Fernández Madrid, both Representatives for the Cartagena Province.[1]
The triumvirate was inaugurated on October 5, 1814.
On January 12, 1815, Congress arrived in
Santa Fe de Bogotá, after its army, headed by Simón Bolívar, had forced Cundinamarca into the Union in December 1814. The interim triumvirate was replaced on January 21, 1815, by the original nominated members, with the exception of Joaquín Camacho, who had turned down the nomination. The first president of the triumvirate was José Miguel Pey de Andrade, who at the moment was serving as the governor of Bogotá. On August 17, García Rovira, who had presented his resignation as President of the Triumvirate to Congress on July 11, was replaced by Antonio Villavicencio
.
Administrative divisions
The Act was ratified by the provinces of Antioquia, Cartagena, Neiva, Pamplona and Tunja. Under the Act of Federation each province was free to write its own constitution and form its own government. Other regions of the New Kingdom of Granada established their own governments and confederations (for example, the Confederated Cities of the Cauca Valley, 1811–1812) or remained royalist.[2]
At the beginning of the revolution, the larger
audiencias
.
The
Cauca River Valley
.
These provinces were located in what are now the Republic of Ecuador and the southern part of Colombia
.
The
attempt at establishing a junta
between 1809 and 1812, remained a Royalist stronghold throughout the wars of independence.
The territory of the
Cumaná, Guayana, Maracaibo, Venezuela or Caracas (central Venezuela), and Margarita Island, and it had its own audiencia and superintendency based in Caracas. After the Revolution the captaincy general established itself as a republic
.
See also
- First Republic of New Granada
- Spanish reconquest of New Granada
- Bolívar's campaign to liberate New Granada
References
Bibliography
- Gibson, William Marion (1948). The Constitutions of Colombia. Durham: Duke University Press.
