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The territory corresponding to Panama was incorporated later in 1739, and the provinces of Venezuela were separated from the Viceroyalty and assigned to the Captaincy General of Venezuela in 1777. In addition to those core areas, the territory of the Viceroyalty of New Granada included Guyana , Trinidad and Tobago , southwestern Suriname , parts of northwestern Brazil , and northern Peru .
The Province of Venezuela was incorporated into the Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717 and became Captaincy General of Venezuela in 1777. In 1811, it became one of the first Spanish-American colonies to declare independence , which was not securely established until 1821, when Venezuela was a department of the federal republic of Gran Colombia .
Fernando Miyares. Juan Domingo de Monteverde. Francisco Tomás Morales. Pablo Morillo. Categories: Colonial Venezuela. Venezuelan people. Spanish colonial governors and administrators. Heads of state of Venezuela.
I added information on the Real Audiencia of Caracas to this page because the Audiencia and the Captaincy General were created jointly (just a few years apart) for the same reasons, so I feel they are best discussed together. I will set up a redirect to this page for Real Audiencia of Caracas.
The Captaincy General of Venezuela , also known as the Kingdom of Venezuela , was an administrative district of colonial Spain, created on September 8, 1777, through the Royal Decree of Graces of 1777, to provide more autonomy for the provinces of Venezuela, previously under the jurisdiction of the Audiencia of Santo Domingo and then the Viceroyalty of New Granada.
New Granada and Captaincy General (1717 - 1812) Historia de la conquista y población de la Provincia de Venezuela (1723), by José de Oviedo y Baños. The Province of Venezuela came under the jurisdiction of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (established in 1717). The Province became the Captaincy General of Venezuela in 1777.
Simón Bolívar was born on 24 July 1783 in Caracas, capital of the Captaincy General of Venezuela, the fourth and youngest child of Juan Vicente Bolívar y Ponte and María de la Concepción Palacios y Blanco . He was baptized as Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios on 30 July.
