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The United Provinces of New Granada was a country in South America from 1810 to 1816. It was formed from what was the Viceroyalty of New Granada. The government was a republic and the country was reconquered by Spain in 1816.
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The Triumvirate
Congress nominated Manuel Rodríguez Torices, President of the State of Cartagena, José Manuel Restrepo, Antioquia's Secretary of State, and Custodio García Rovira, Governor of the Province of Socorro. At the time of the nomination, the nominated officials were exercising their jobs, so they were temporarily replaced by members of Congress, Joaquín Camacho, Representative for the Province of Tunja, José María del Castillo y Rada, and José Fernández Madrid, both Representatives for the Province of Cartagena[1]. The triumvirate was inaugurated on October 5, 1814. On January 12, 1815, Congress arrived in Bogotá The interim triumvirate was replaced on January 21, 1815, by the original nominated members, with the exception of Joaquín Camacho, who had turned down the nomination, and was then replaced by José Miguel Pey de Andrade, the first President of the United Provinces, and at the moment, the Governor of Santafé de Bogotá. On August 17 García Rovira, who had presented his resignation as President of the triumvirate to congress on July 11, was replaced by Antonio Villavicencio.
Administrative divisions
At the beginning of the Revolution, the Viceroyalty of the New Granada consisted of 22 Provinces and a Captaincy General. The Provinces were under the jurisdiction of two Audiencias, these were, the Royal Audiency of Quito, who had jurisdiction over the provinces of Quito, Cuenca, Loja, Ibarra and Riobamba, these provinces were located in what is now the Republic of Ecuador. The Royal Audiency of Santafé de Bogotá, had jurisdiction over the provinces of Panama and Veragua in what is now the Republic of Panama, and the provinces of Antioquia, Cartagena de Indias, Casanare, Mariquita, Pamplona, Citará, Nóvita, Popayán, Santafé, Tunja, Santa Marta, Ríohacha, El Socorro, and Neiva. The Captaincy General of Venezuela, although under the jurisdiction of the Viceroyalty, was practically independent from it, and it had jurisdiction over the Provinces of Cumaná, Guayana, Maracaibo, Venezuela, and the Margarita Island.
