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Captaincy General of Venezuela. The Captaincy General of Venezuela (_es. Capitanía General de Venezuela) was an administrative district of colonial Spain, created in 1777 to provide more autonomy for the provinces of Venezuela, previously under the jurisdiction of the Viceroyalty of New Granada and the Audiencia of Santo Domingo.
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 General Captaincy of Chile ( Capitanía General de Chile [kapitaˈni.a xeneˈɾal de ˈtʃile] ), Governorate of Chile, or Kingdom of Chile, [1] was a territory of the Spanish Empire from 1541 to 1818 that was, initially, part of the Viceroyalty of Peru. It comprised most of modern-day Chile and southern parts of Argentina in the Patagonia ...
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.
The Captaincy General, which was essentially a new viceroyalty in all but name, was actually created slowly over time by centralizing fiscal, administrative, military and ecclesiastical rule in Caracas. The first step was the creation of the Intendancy of Caracas, by Minister of the Indies, José de Gálvez in 1776.
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.
