United States of Colombia
| Estados Unidos de Colombia | |||||
| United States of Colombia | |||||
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Motto : Libertad y Orden ( Spanish for "freedom and order" ) |
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| Capital | Santa Fe de Bogotá | ||||
| Form of government | republic | ||||
| currency | peso | ||||
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The United States of Colombia ( Spanish : Estados Unidos de Colombia ) was a South American state that emerged from the Granada Confederation in 1863 after a three-year civil war - triggered by an uprising by General Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera - and became the present Republic of Colombia in 1886 . On May 8, 1863, the United States of Colombia introduced a constitution along the lines of the Liberals.
The nine individual states were Departamento de AntioquiayAntioquia , Bolívar , Boyacá , Cauca , Cundinamarca , Magdalena , Panama , Santander and the new state Tolima , as well as the territories of Caquetá , San Martin, Nevada and Motilones. The distribution of power between the individual states and the central government was not clearly regulated, so that the individual states remained largely independent.
history
The federal constitution and the weakening of the central government and the influence of the military led to around 40 local uprisings and a civil war from 1876 to 1877. The liberal and radical-liberal presidents changed almost annually. After another civil war in 1885, triggered by a liberal uprising against President Rafael Núñez the previous year, the latter founded the conservative Partido Nacional , allowed the Catholic bishops to return to the country and took up relations with Spain that had been interrupted since independence again, introduced a conservative-centralist constitution in 1886 and changed the name of the state to the current one. As his main merit can be seen that he secured the peace for a long time.