Republic of Southern Peru
The Republic of Southern Peru (Spanish: República Sud-Peruana ) was one of the three sub-republics of the short-lived Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation . It existed from 1836 to 1839. The capital was Tacna .
history
The state came into being as a result of the Bolivian occupation of Peru. For example, the Bolivian President Andrés de Santa Cruz stood behind the Peruvian Caudillo Luís Orbegoso in the fight against Agustín Gamarra and Felipe Santiago de Salaverry and used the military support to occupy large parts of Peru. On August 15, 1836, Santa Cruz invaded Lima . In preparation for a Peruvian-Bolivian confederation, he had the political structure of Peru reorganized and divided the country into two republics. On March 17, 1836, South Peru was founded under General Ramón Herrera Rodado in the city of Sicuana . This comprised about 1/3 of the area of Peru in the borders before 1836 and had a population of 500,000–800,000 inhabitants. The remaining provinces united on August 6, 1836 under the government of Luís de Orbego to form the Republic of Northern Peru . On October 28, 1836, northern Peru united with southern Peru and Bolivia to form the Confederación Perú-Boliviana. The Republic of Southern Peru was dissolved on August 25, 1839 with the dissolution of the confederation and the declaration of the renewed independence of the reunified Peru. The Peruvian General Agustín Gamarra was elected President on February 24th.
President of the Republic of Southern Peru
- General Ramón Herrera Rodado (September 17, 1837 - October 12, 1838)
- Juan Pío de Tristán y Moscoso (October 12, 1838 - February 23, 1839)
Territorial division
Southern Peru consisted of the four southern provinces of Peru before 1836. This territorial structure was retained later.
| # | Department | Department population |
Capital | Population capital |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arequipa | 136.075 | Arequipa | 24,000-30,000 |
| 2 | Ayacucho | 111,559 | Huamanga | 16,000-26,000 |
| 3 | Cusco | 216,332 | Cusco | 32,000−45,000 |
| 4th | Puno | 30,917 | Puno | 15,000-18,000 |
literature
- Heraclio Bonilla: Peru and Bolivia from Independence to the War of the Pacific , in: Leslie Bethell (ed.): The Cambridge history of Latin America , Vol. 3, Cambridge 2002, pp. 539-582.
- Herbert S. Klein: A concise history of Bolivia , Cambridge 2003, pp. 89–117.
- Robert L. Scheina: Latin America's Wars: The age of the caudillo 1791-1899 , Vol. 1, Dulles 2003, pp. 132-139.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b See trade almanac or overview of what is worth knowing for trade in the various countries of the world , Weimar 1838, p. 834.
- ↑ a b c d e Cf. Samuel Augustus Mitchell: Mitchell's geographical reader: a system of modern geography , Philadelphia, p. 229.
- ↑ a b c d Cf. Ludwig Gottfried Blanc: Handbook of the most worth knowing from the nature and history of the earth and its inhabitants , Braunschweig 1858, p. 569.