New Kingdom of Granada

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New Kingdom of Granada Nuevo Reino de Granada Nuevo Reyno de Granada
1538–1819
Burgundian Saltire Coat of arms of Colonial-era Bogotá
The New Kingdom of Granada
Status	Ultramarine Province of the Spanish Empire Province of the Viceroyalty of Peru (1542-1717) Province of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1723, 1739-1810, 1816-1821)
Capital	Santa Fe de Bogotá
Common languages	Castilian and Indigenous languages
Religion	Catholicism
Government	Monarchy
King
Viceroy
Historical era	Spanish colonization of the Americas
• Established	October 12 1538
• Viceroyalty established	May 27, 1717
• Muisca conquest, finalization of the Spanish conquest of New Granada	1540
• Viceroyalty suppressed; kingdom autonomous again	November 5, 1723
• Disestablished	September 27 1819
Population
• 1650	750,000 (Inc. Popayán Province)[1]
Currency	Real
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 of	Colombia Panama

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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]