Republic of New Granada
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Republic of New Granada República de la Nueva Granada | |||||||||
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| 1831–1858 | |||||||||
| Motto: Libertad y Orden (Template:Lang-en) | |||||||||
.svg) Republic of the New Granada | |||||||||
| Capital | Santa Fé de Bogotá | ||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholic | ||||||||
| Government | Presidential republic | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | October 20 1831 | ||||||||
| 1853 | |||||||||
• Constitutional Change | April 11 1858 | ||||||||
| Currency | Peso | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Brazil  Colombia Costa Rica  Ecuador  Nicaragua  Panama Peru  Venezuela | ||||||||
The Republic of New Granada was a centralist republic consisting primarily of present-day Colombia and Panama with smaller portions of today's Ecuador, and Venezuela. It was created after the dissolution in 1830 of Gran Colombia.
Colombian Constitution of 1832
One of the prime features of the political climate of the republic was the position of the Catholic Church and the level of autonomy for the federal states. In 1839, dispute arose over the shutting down of monasteries by the Congress of New Granada. This soon escalated into the War of the Supremes, which raged for the next two years and transformed into a conflict about regional autonomy.
New Granada was transformed in 1858 to the Granadine Confederation as an answer to demands for a decentralized country.
Provinces
The territory of the Republic was divided into provinces. Each province was composed of one or more cantons, each canton was divided into several districts parish.
Likewise, the Republic covered some territories in the peripheries of the country.
See also
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