Bernardo de Velasco

Bernardo de Velasco
Portrait by Guglielmo Da Re, 1890
Intendent Governor of Paraguay
In office
5 May 1806 – 17 June 1811
Preceded byLázaro de Ribera y Espinoza
Succeeded byPost abolished
(replaced by Superior Governing Junta of the Province of Paraguay)
Military and political governor of the thirty towns of the Missions
In office
9 October 1804 – 17 June 1811
MonarchCharles IV of Spain
Preceded bySantiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires
Personal details
Born
Bernardo Luis de Velasco y Huidobro

20 August 1742
Villadiego, Burgos, Spain
DiedUnknown, possibly around 1821
Asunción, Paraguay
NationalitySpain and Paraguay
OccupationMilitary

Bernardo Luis de Velasco y Huidobro (20 August 1742 – c. 1821) was a figure in the Spanish American wars of independence, the last Spanish governor of the Intendency of Paraguay and a commander of royalist military forces in the war. He was deposed by the congress celebrated in Asunción on 17 June 1811. He was born in Villadiego, Burgos, Spain.