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Governorate of New Toledo

Spanish Imperial colony

Summary

Spanish Imperial colony

Field	Value
native_name	Gobernación de Nueva Toledo
conventional_long_name	Governorate of New Toledo
common_name	New Toledo
status	Governorate of the Crown of Castile
empire	Spain
religion	Catholicism
era	Spanish Empire
year_start	1529
year_end	1542
event_start	Capitulation of Toledo
event_end	Viceroy of Peru
p1	Inca Empire
p2	Indigenous peoples of the Americas
s1	Viceroyalty of Peru
flag_type	Cross of Burgundy
image_flag	Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg
image_map	Mapa de América del Sur (Gobernaciones 1534-1539).svg
image_map_caption	Spanish map of the administrative division of New Castile and New Toledo made in 1535
capital	Cuzco (Claimed by Diego de Almagro)
government_type	Monarchy
title_leader	King
leader1	Charles I
year_leader1	1516–1556
title_representative	Governor
representative1	Simón de Alcazaba y Sotomayor
year_representative1	1529-1534
representative2	Simón de Alcazaba y Sotomayor
year_representative2	1534–1538
official_languages	Spanish
currency	Escudo

The Governorate of New Toledo was a Spanish Governorate of the Crown of Castile formed from the previous southern half of the Inca Empire, stretching south into present day central Chile, and east into present day central Brazil.

It was established by King Charles I of Spain in 1528. Diego de Almagro was the appointed Spanish royal governor after the failure of Simón de Alcazaba y Sotomayor to establish himself in the area after the Capitulation of Toledo of 1529.

It was replaced by the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru in 1542.

Governorates in Hispanic America

Main article: Capitulations of 1534

After the territorial division of South America between Spain and Portugal, the Peruvian Hispanic administration was divided into six entities:

Province of Tierra Firme, included the Caribbean Coast, Central America, the Pacific Coast of Colombia and Mexico.
Governorate of New Castile, consisting of the territories from roughly the Ecuadorian-Colombian border in the north to Cuzco in the south.
Governorate of New Toledo, forming the previous southern half of the Inca empire, stretching towards central Chile.
Governorate of New Andalusia, which was not formally conquered by Spain until decades later.
Governorate of New León, the southernmost part of the continent until the Strait of Magellan.
Governorate of Terra Australis, territories from the south of the Strait of Magellan to the South Pole.

This territorial division set the basis for the Hispanic administration of South America for several decades. It was formally dissolved in 1544, when King Charles I sent his personal envoy, Blasco Núñez Vela, to govern the newly founded Viceroyalty of Peru that replaced the governorates.

References

(1967). "Breve historia de las fronteras de Chile". Editorial Universitaria.

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