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  Tourism in Lima - Peru Contact
· Lima is the capital of Peru, and it used to be the capital of the richest spanish viceroyalty of South America ·;
Lima is the capital of Peru, and it used to be the capital of the richest spanish viceroyalty of South America.
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  Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the other hand, the Viceroyalty of Peru required all commerce to be performed through Lima's port, which restrained the Buenos Aires natural port potential economy, a problem that also caused large contraband activities in the region, especially in Asunción, Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
For instance, in the first years of the viceroyalty, around 75% of the expenses were covered with revenues that came from the north.
By 1805, Spain had to help France because of their 1795 alliance, and had lost its navy in the Battle of Trafalgar, but the Spanish prime minister had warned the viceroyalty of the likelihood of a British invasion, and that in such an event the city of Buenos Aires would be on its own.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viceroyalty_of_the_River_Plate   (1082 words)

  
 VIRGINIA GUEDEA | The Process of Mexican Independence | The American Historical Review, 105.1 | The History Cooperative
New World representation in the highest organ of metropolitan government, besides validating the Americans' claim that the viceroyalty was an integral part of the monarchy, reopened the path to representative government closed by the coup d'état.
Thus it undermined the significance of the insurgency as an alternative for the disaffected in the viceroyalty.
Although not all of the six provincial deputations allocated to the Viceroyalty of New Spain were elected during the first constitutional period, and those that were functioned only a short time, large sectors of the population took part in the first phase of the elections to establish them.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/ahr/105.1/ah000116.html   (6477 words)

  
 The viceroyalty (virreynato)of Peru and El Rio de La Plata: The Americas
The Viceroyalty of Peru: Created in 1542, Spanish Virreinato de Peru the second of the four viceroyalties that Spain created to govern its domains in the Americas.
The viceroy of Peru and his generals were taken prisoner, and what was left of the territory that had been the Viceroyalty of Peru became part of the independent nations of Peru and Chile.
Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata: Created in 1776, the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata was the last and most shortlived viceroyalty created by Spain.
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 South America, 1600-1800 A.D. | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Lima, capital of the Viceroyalty of Perú, grows to become the most important city in the Americas after Mexico, and silver-rich Potosí, the source of Perú's wealth, is the fifth most populous city in the world by 1620.
The new viceroyalty also encompasses the Caribbean coastline of South America formerly under the jurisdiction of New Spain, as a means to combat foreign depredations on Spanish trade.
The accession of Charles III to the Spanish throne accelerates modernization of the royal bureaucracy and centralization of power, deeply affecting the entrenched criollo elite in Spanish America and spawning disaffection and revolts through the end of the century.
www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/09/sa/ht09sa.htm   (1542 words)

  
 Insulae Draconis Operating Procedures
The Crown Principality Council of the Purse shall be comprised of the Viceroyalty, seneschal, and exchequer.
The Viceroyalty is encouraged to attend as many events as possible during their reign so as to enrich the events of the populace of Insulae Draconis.
The Crown Principality Council of the Purse shall consist of the Viceroyalty, Crown Principality Seneschal, and Crown Principality Chancellor of the Exchequer.
www.insulaedraconis.org /files/seneschal/opproc-1May2004.html   (6574 words)

  
 Argentina History - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
That is why the Viceroyalty of Peru developed slowly, always under the shadows of the Inca Empire.
It was the interest aroused by the development of the port of Buenos Aires for countries such as Portugal (which expanded its colonizing campaigns up to Plata River), England and France, (which carried out expeditions in Patagonia and Malvinas) that made Spain aware of the importance and autonomy of this region.
While, in the beginning, the population was distributed among different points of the interior, but, thanks to the prosperity of the littoral stockbreeders and the merits of the port of Buenos Aires, from which leather, tallow and wool were exported, economic activity was increasingly centered in Buenos Aires.
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 Viceroy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Viceroyalty of Peru, with its capital in Lima, ruled over all of Spain's territory in South America, while the Viceroyalty of New Spain, with its capital in Mexico City, ruled over Spain's territory in Mexico, Central and North America, the Caribbean and the Philippines.
Due to the growing size of Spain's American colonies, new viceroyalties were created for New Granada in 1717 (capital, Bogotá) and the Río de la Plata in 1776 (capital, Buenos Aires).
The viceroyalties of Spanish America were subdivided into smaller units, Audiencias and Captaincies General, which in many cases became the bases for the independent countries of modern Spanish America.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viceroyalty   (1310 words)

  
 Peru
The establishment of the Inquisition in Peru in 1568 was part of a colonial political design by Philip II at the end of 1560, and its purpose was to deal mainly with the political and ideological crisis in the Peruvian viceroyalty.
In the middle of the sixteenth century, several writers criticised the moral situation of the regular and secular clergy in the viceroyalty.
For statesmen and ecclesiastics, the Peruvian viceroyalty not only had moral problems but also economic and political problems; the decline of the Indian labour force, the decrease of Indian tributes and mining production, the deterioration of state authority, etc. In 1568, at a meeting in Madrid, all these problems were analysed.
www.beaconforfreedom.org /about_database/peru.html   (4425 words)

  
 GOLDBERG: Sepan todos que muero
The two large viceroyalties initially established by Spain in its American colonies were the Viceroyalty of New Spain and the Viceroyalty of Peru.
To ease the administration of such large territories, the Viceroyalty of Peru was later reduced in size, giving rise to the Viceroyalty of New Granada (which included modern Venezuela, Colombia, Panama and Ecuador), and later on in 1776, the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata (covering Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina).
Since the program on this recording is dedicated to music in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 17th and early 18 c., it includes works from several of the countries that made up early Peru and New Granada, emphasizing the music heard in the city of Lima, capital of this vast viceroyalty.
www.goldbergweb.com /en/discography/22071_print.php   (894 words)

  
 Miscellaneous   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The viceroyalty was divided into audiences (audiencias--see Glossary), which were further subdivided into provinces or districts (corregimientos--see Glossary) and finally municipalities, which included a city or town, governed by town councils cabildos--see Glossary), composed of the most prominent citizens, mostly encomenderos in the early years and later hacendados (see Glossary).
The most important royal official was the viceroy, who had a host of responsibilities ranging from general administration (particularly tax collection and construction of public works) and internal and external defense to support of the church and protection of the native population.
For Peru, perhaps the most far-reaching change was the creation of a new viceroyalty in the Río de la Plata (River Plate) region in 1776 that radically altered the geopolitical and economic balance in South America.
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 vicerealm1
This period as a viceroyalty was to continue for two centuries and saw almost forty five different viceroys assume power.
The first decades of the viceroyalty were particularly marked by disorder, especially of a legal nature, although, unusually for the south, it has been suggested that there was a degree of unity between the barons and the nobles.
At the close of the first century of the Spanish Viceroyalty comes Count Olivares Enrico di Guzmàn, who continued in the task of battling criminality and trying to contain the demands of the barons.
faculty.ed.umuc.edu /~jmatthew/naples/vicerealm1.html   (1004 words)

  
 Jewish Agency Responds to Argentina
Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (consisting of modern Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and southern Bolivia), with Buenos Aires as its capital.
By carving the new viceroyalty from lands formerly part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, Spain intended to put its east-coast dominions in a better defensive position.
The Buenos Aires government tried to maintain the integrity of the old Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, but the outlying portions, never effectively controlled, soon were lost: Paraguay in 1814, Bolivia in 1825, and Uruguay in 1828.
home.att.net /~a.barletta/Argentina_Early_History.htm   (1710 words)

  
 History of ARGENTINA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Until this time the region has been part of the viceroyalty of Peru, administered at very long range from Lima.
In 1776 the entire area, from the eastern Bolivian highlands through Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina to the southern tip of the continent, is given separate status as the viceroyalty of La Plata with its capital at Buenos Aires.
The ambitions of many in Buenos Aires are that their city should remain the capital of the entire viceroyalty.
www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ac09   (1783 words)

  
 Ecuador - SPANISH COLONIAL ERA
It remained a part of the Viceroyalty of Peru until 1720, when it joined the newly created Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada; within the viceroyalty, however, Ecuador was awarded its own audiencia in 1563, allowing it to deal directly with Madrid on certain matters.
The Quito Audiencia, which was both a court of justice and an advisory body to the viceroy, consisted of a president and several judges (oidores).
As a result of those reforms, the Quito Audiencia was transferred in 1720 from the authority of the Peruvian viceroyalty to the newly created Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada, whose capital was in Bogotá.
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 index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Engraved in 1842, the map depicts the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (River Plate) around 1810.
The Viceroyalty covered the greater part of Southern South America, including the present day countries of Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Southen Bolivia.
Buenos Aires became the seat of the Viceroyalty due to its favorable location at the mouth of the River Plate.
www.rarebooks.nd.edu /exhibits/riverplate/links2.shtml   (162 words)

  
 Peru, country, South America: History
The viceroyalty of Peru was expanded to include all of Spanish-ruled South America except Venezuela, and the mining of silver and gold increased.
Lima was the administrative, religious, economic, and cultural center of the viceroyalty.
At the same time, government in Peru was reformed, but Spaniards retained almost complete control in the viceroyalty, and the indigenous peoples and creoles (persons of Spanish descent born in Peru) remained powerless and poor.
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 Peru Mestizo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In the 18th century, the area of the viceroyalty was reduced by the creation of new organs of government.
The viceroyalty of Nueva Granada (New Granada), created in 1739, included Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela; the viceroyalty of La Plata, created in 1776, covered the vast area now occupied by Argentina, Uruguay, and Bolivia.
During most of the colonial period Chile was a captaincy general dependent upon the viceroyalty of Peru, but in 1778, it too became a separate division.
www.humanities-interactive.org /newworld/mestizo/ex053_04g.htm   (207 words)

  
 Power and Politics in the 19th-Century River Plate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
One of its major new measures was the creation of the Viceroyalty de La Plata in 1776.
The Viceroyalty was named after the vast Río de la Plata (River Plate) that empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
The mining region of Upper Peru (now Bolivia) was incorporated into the new Viceroyalty, and silver from these mines was shipped through the port of Buenos Aires.
www.rarebooks.nd.edu /exhibits/riverplate/index.shtml   (747 words)

  
 United States and the Bolivian Sea Coast - Chapter 1
It extended on the north to the frontiers of the Brazils, and to the Viceroyalty of Lima, where it bounded on the provinces of Carabaya, Cuzco and Chucuito, and westward on the river Desaguadero and the province of Arica.
On the west it was separated from Chili by the Cordilleras de los Andes, and extended south to the Straits of Magellan.
After the establishment of the Viceroyalty of La Plata in 1776, the Audiencia de Charcas, including the Port of Arica, was established as part of the new colonial unity whose capital was located in Buenos Aires.
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 Job No
The Viceroyalty’s population and labour power increased with the constant arrival of African slaves, especially after 1791, when the Crown liberalized the slave trade.
The city of Buenos Aires, which was the capital and administrative centre of the Viceroyalty, had documents sent to it from what are now the Republics of Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia and Paraguay, and one of the districts of Peru (Puno).
The Viceroyalty’s population and labour power increased with the constant arrival of slaves.
www.unesco.org /webworld/nominations/en/argentina/argentina.htm   (2384 words)

  
 Positions And Description
During the 16th century, two additional Viceroyalties were added, one for New Spain (Mexico) and one for Peru.
The Viceroyalty of Española, was closed and its territories came under control of New Spain.
Each Viceroyalty was sub-divided into Judicial Districts which served the function of an Appeals Court.
www.bruce.ruiz.net /PanamaHistory/political_positions.htm   (702 words)

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