Viceroyalty of New Granada
Also known as New Granada, Terra Firma, Terra Ferma, Nueva Granada, Spanish Colombia, Spanish Venezuela, Spanish Ecuador, Colonial Colombia
viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire in the Americas (1717-1819)
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The Viceroyalty of New Granada was a Spanish colonial territory in South America that existed from 1717 to 1819, governed by a viceroy appointed by the Spanish crown. It matters because it was one of Spain's major administrative divisions in the Americas during the colonial period and eventually became the independent nations of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama.
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- 1778
- 1,280,000
- 1810
- 2,150,000
- Status
- Viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire
- Capital
- Santa Fe de Bogotá
- Common languages
- Spanish ( official, administrative ), Indigenous languages ( Arawakan languages , Barbacoan languages , Chibchan languages , Guajiboan languages , Páez , Ticuna )
- Religion
- Roman Catholicism
- Government
- Monarchy
- 1717 1724 first
- Philip V
- 1813 1822 last
- Ferdinand VII
- 1718 1719 first
- Antonio Ignacio de la Pedrosa y Guerrero
- 1819 1822 last
- Juan de la Cruz Mourgeón
- Historical era
- Spanish colonization of the Americas
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The Viceroyalty of the New Kingdom of Granada (Spanish: Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada [birejˈnato ðel ˈnweβo ˈrejno ðe ɣɾaˈnaða]), also called Viceroyalty of New Granada (Virreinato de la Nueva Granada) or Viceroyalty of Santa Fe, was the name given on 27 May 1717 to the jurisdiction of the Spanish Empire in northern South America, corresponding to modern Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela.
Created in 1717 by King Felipe V, as part of a new territorial control policy, it was suspended in 1723 for financial problems. It was restored in 1739 until the independence movement suspended it again in 1810. The territory corresponding to Panama was incorporated in 1739. The provinces of Venezuela were separated from the Viceroyalty and assigned to the Captaincy General of Venezuela in 1777.
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