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4 unusual facts about Charcas


Bolivia–Chile relations

Bolivian and Chilean historians disagree on whether the territory of Charcas, originally part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, later of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and ultimately of Bolivia, included access to the sea.

Diego Morcillo Rubio de Auñón

Reyes had been convicted by a judge of the Royal Court of Charcas of misdeeds - but the Court had given the judge the power to succeed the governor himself, creating an obvious conflict of interest.

Continuing his ecclesiastical advancement, he was appointed archbishop of La Plata, Alto Perú (Charcas, Bolivia) on March 21, 1714, and finally archbishop of Lima on May 12, 1723.

Pío de Tristán

The defeat of the Royalists at Salta gave the insurgents domination over the northern part of the old viceroyalty and also led to revolts against the Spanish in Charcas, Potosí and later Cochabamba, Alto Perú (now Bolivia).


Charca people

Portuguese conquistador Aleixo Garcia is believed to be the first Caucasian person to make contact with the Charcas in the year 1505.

Francisco Antonio Marín del Valle

When he came to America, eventually settled in the state of Potosí (in modern Bolivia), where work in the mines of Charcas.

Francisco de Carvajal

In the campaign of 1546 Carvajal violently put down the royalist forces in the south of the colony, marching and countermarching from Quito to San Miguel, from Lima to Guamanga and back to Lima, from Lucanas to Cuzco, from Collao to Arequipa and from Arequipa to Charcas.

José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa

When revolution broke out in Buenos Aires on May 25, 1810, Abascal reoccupied the provinces of Córdoba, Potosí, La Paz and Charcas (in Alto Perú, now Bolivia) and reincorporated them into the Viceroyalty of Peru.

Paullu Inca

Paullu also took part in the battle of Salinas at the head of 6,000 Incas, and in 1539 he accompanied Gonzalo Pizarro in the war against the Incas of Charcas.

Ramón García de León y Pizarro

Ramón García de León y Pizarro (born Oran, now Argelia, 1745; died Charcas, Bolivia, December 1815), was a Spanish military officer and administrator.

Supreme Central and Governing Junta of the Kingdom

In particular Quito and Charcas, which saw themselves as the capitals of kingdoms, resented being subsumed in the larger "kingdom" of Peru.


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