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United Provinces of New Granada
Origins
After the revolutions of 1810, delegates of several provinces of the Viceroyalty of New Granada signed an Act of Federation in November 1811, creating the United Provinces of New Granada. Its congress sat at Tunja and was led by Camilo Torres. Cartagena declared absolute independence from Spain the same month.
Rule and society
The federation left great power to the provinces and quarrelled with the centralist Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca, leading to civil war. Bolívar, a refugee from Venezuela, wrote his Cartagena Manifesto there in 1812 and led campaigns for the federation. In 1814 he captured Bogotá for the United Provinces, which then moved its government there.
Decline and legacy
Pablo Morillo's royalist expedition besieged Cartagena in 1815, starving it into surrender, and took Bogotá in May 1816. Leaders such as Camilo Torres and the scientist Francisco José de Caldas were executed. The period is remembered as the Patria Boba, the Foolish Fatherland.
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- United Provinces of New Granada was conquered by Spanish Empire1816 CE
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). United Provinces of New Granada. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/united-provinces-of-new-granada
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