Subdivisions of Gran Colombia

The Republic of Gran Colombia was a former independent country in northern South America, a post-Spanish colonial country that existed from 1819 to 1831. Its initial subdivisions, created in 1820, were revised and expanded in 1824 to 12 departments.

## 1820 Departments

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Gran Colombia departments in 1820 (not including disputed Mosquito Coast).

The initial country subdivision of Gran Colombia was into three departments, without larger districts or smaller provinces. They were:

* Cundinamarca Department
* Quito Department
* Venezuela Department

## 1824 districts, departments, and provinces

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Gran Colombia departments in 1824 (not including disputed Mosquito Coast).

### Northern District

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The Northern District (Spanish: Distrito del Norte) was in present-day Venezuela and Brazil. Its departments and provinces were:

* Apure Department: 2 provinces — Barinas Province and Achaguas Province.
* Orinoco Department: 4 provinces — Cumaná Province, Barcelona Province, Guayana Province and Margarita Province.
* Venezuela Department: 2 provinces — Caracas Province and Carabobo Province.
* Zulia Department: 4 provinces — Maracaybo/Maracaibo, Coro Province, Mérida Province and Trujillo Province.

### Central District

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The Central District (Spanish: Distrito del Centro) was in present-day Colombia and Panama. Its departments and provinces were:

* Boyaca Department: 4 provinces — Tunja Province, Casanare Province, Pamplona Province, and Socorro Province.
* Cauca Department: 4 provinces — Popayán Province, Buenaventura Province, Chocó Province, Pasto Province.
* Cundinamarca Department: 4 provinces — Bogotá Province, Antioquia Province, Mariquita Province, Neiva Province.
* Isthmus Department (now Panama): 2 provinces — Isthmus Province and Veraguas Province.
* Magdalena Department: 3 provinces — Cartagena Province, Riohacha Province, Santa Marta Province.

Control of a strip of the Mosquito Coast along the Atlantic Ocean (in present-day Costa Rica and Nicaragua) was disputed with the British and the Federal Republic of Central America.[citation needed]

### Southern District

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The Southern District (Spanish: Distrito del Sur) was in present-day Ecuador, and north of Marañón River in present-day Peru. Its departments and provinces were:

* Azuay Department: 3 provinces — Cuenca Province, Loja Province, Jaén de Bracamoros y Maynas Province.
* Guayaquil Department: 2 provinces — Guayaquil Province and Manabí Province.
* Ecuador Department: 3 provinces — Pichincha Province, Chimborazo Province and Imbabura Province.

## Maps of subdivisions

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* 3 departments in 1820: Quito, Cundinamarca, Venezuela

* 12 departments in 1824

* Gran Colombia in 1825

## See also

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maps of the Gran Colombia.

* Provinces of Gran Colombia
* Departments of Colombia — in present day country.

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Gran Colombian independence

Background|

* Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717–1723), (1739-1819)
* Captaincy General of Venezuela (1777–1821)
* Peninsular War in Spain (1808–1814)

Overview|

* Military career of Simón Bolívar
* Ecuadorian War of Independence
* Venezuelan War of Independence

Political
history|

* Luz de América (1809)
* First Republic of Venezuela (1810–12)
* Colombian Declaration of Independence (1810)
* Venezuelan Declaration of Independence (1811)
* United Provinces of New Granada (1811–16)
* Second Republic of Venezuela (1813–14)
* Third Republic of Venezuela (1817–19)
* Gran Colombia (1819–31) (Ecuador, 1830
* Venezuela/Republic of New Granada, 1831)

Military
history|

| 1812–16|

* La Victoria (June 1812)
* Magdalena campaign (1812-1813)
* Admirable Campaign (1813: Cúcuta, February 1813
* Alto de los Godos, May 1813)
* Araure (December 1813)
* Spanish reconquest of New Granada (1815–16)

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1819–23|

* Bolívar's campaign to liberate New Granada (1819–20: Las Queseras del Medio, April 1819 – Vargas Swamp, July 1819 – Boyacá, August 1819)
* Carabobo (June 1821)
* Lake Maracaibo (July 1823)

Colombian
figures|

* Antonio Nariño
* Benito Salas Vargas
* Joaquín Camacho
* Liborio Mejía
* José María Obando
* José Miguel Pey de Andrade
* Antonio Ricaurte
* Manuel Rodríguez Torices
* Francisco de Paula Santander

Venezuelan
figures|

* Simón Bolívar
* Francisco de Miranda
* José Antonio Páez
* Manuel Piar
* José Félix Ribas
* Antonio José de Sucre
* Rafael Urdaneta
* Carlos Soublette
* Santiago Mariño
* Cristóbal Mendoza
* Mariano Montilla
* Pedro Camejo
* Juan Bautista Arismendi
* Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi
* Luis Brión
* José Antonio Anzoátegui

Other figures|

* José Tomás Boves
* Louis-Michel Aury
* Juan Manuel Cajigal
* Juan Domingo de Monteverde
* Pablo Morillo
* Daniel Florence O'Leary
* José Prudencio Padilla
* Miguel de la Torre

Other|

* Carmañola Americana (1797)
* Decree of War to the Death (1813)

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