Granada Confederation

	Confederación Granadina
	Granada Confederation
	1858-1863
flag	coat of arms
	Motto : Libertad y Orden; ( Spanish for "freedom and order" )
Capital	Santa Fe de Bogotá
Form of government	republic
currency	peso

Granada Confederation (also granadinian Confederation Spanish : Confederación Granadina ) was from 1858 to the end of a three-year civil war in 1863 the official name of the future United States of Colombia , predecessor to the present-day Colombia . It originated from the Republic of New Granada .

geography

The Granada Confederation was located in northwestern South America . The confederation bordered the Caribbean in the north and the Pacific in the west , neighboring states in the east were the Empire of Brazil and the Republic of Venezuela , in the south the Republic of Ecuador , and in the north-west the confederation bordered Central America . The most important port cities were Panama City , Cartagena and Santa Marta .

Population and politics

The confederation had a population of around 2.5 million, including around 500,000 whites ( Creoles ), around 450,000 Indians, more than 80,000 blacks, around 1 million mestizos and around 300,000 mulattos . The state church of the Granada Confederation was the Roman Catholic Church . Although there was a parliament of 62 members, the country was more of a confederation of the eight sub-states Antioquia , Bolívar , Boyacá , Cauca , Cundinamarca , Magdalena , Panama and Santander , which in turn consisted of a total of 19 sub-provinces. Although the Granada Confederation was independent, trade was exclusively through Great Britain .

literature

Granāda Confederation . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 7 . Altenburg 1859, p. 539-540 ( zeno.org ).
Colombia (history) . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 9, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 968.

Web links

Commons : Category: Maps of the Granadine Confederation - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Constitución para la Confederación Granadina de 1858. In: cervantesvirtual.com. Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, May 22, 1858, accessed May 28, 2009 (Spanish).