New Kingdom of Granada

New Kingdom of Granada
Nuevo Reino de Granada
Nuevo Reyno de Granada
1538–1819
The New Kingdom of Granada
The New Kingdom of Granada
StatusUltramarine Province of the Spanish Empire
CapitalSanta Fe de Bogotá
Common languagesCastilian and Indigenous languages
Religion
Catholicism
GovernmentMonarchy
King 
Viceroy 
Historical eraSpanish colonization of the Americas
• Established
October 12 1538
• Viceroyalty established
May 27, 1717
1540
• Viceroyalty suppressed; kingdom autonomous again
November 5, 1723
• Disestablished
September 27 1819
Population
• 1650
750,000 (Inc. Popayán Province)[1]
CurrencyReal
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Muisca Confederation
Pijao people
Tairona
Paez people
Quimbaya
Province of Tierra Firme
Providence Island colony
Viceroyalty of New Granada
Today part ofColombia
Panama

The New Kingdom of Granada (Spanish: Nuevo Reino de Granada), or Kingdom of the New Granada, was the name given to a group of 16th-century Spanish ultramarine provinces in northern South America governed by the president of the Royal Audience of Santafé, an area corresponding mainly to modern-day Colombia. The conquistadors originally organized it as a province with a Royal Audience within the Viceroyalty of Peru despite certain independence from it. The audiencia was established by the crown in 1549.

Later, the kingdom would become the Viceroyalty of New Granada, first in 1717, and permanently in 1739. After several attempts to set up independent states in the 1810s, the kingdom and the viceroyalty ceased to exist altogether in 1819 with the establishment of the first Republic of Colombia.[2]

  1. ^ Rosenblat, 1954: 59
  2. ^ Avellaneda Navas; José Ignacio (1995). The conquerors of the New Kingdom of Granada. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.