Viceroyalty of Peru (original) (raw)

Created in 1542, the Viceroyalty of Peru (in Spanish, Virreinato del Per�) contained most of Spanish-ruled South America until the creation of the separate viceroyalties of New Granada (now Colombia, Ecuador, Panam� and Venezuela, the last-named previously in the Viceroyalty of New Spain) in 1717 and the R�o de la Plata (Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay) in 1776. The Viceroyalty ended with the independence of the republics of Chile (1818) and Peru (1821).

During the 17th century the Viceroyalty contained six audiencias or provincial administrations: Panam�, Santa F� de Bogot� (Colombia), Quito (Ecuador), Lima (Peru proper), Charcas (Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay) and Chile.