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The Viceroyalty of Peru (Spanish: Virreinato del Perú), officially known as the Kingdom of Peru (Spanish: Reino del Perú), was a Spanish imperial provincial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained modern-day Peru and most of the Spanish Empire in South America, governed from the capital of Lima.
English: Locator map of the Viceroyalty of Peru (initial (1542) and final, before the splitting of the Captaincy General of Chile (1798) de iure (light green) and de facto (dark green).) Date 11 October 2024
English: Locator map of the Viceroyalty of Peru (initial (1542) and final, before the splitting of the Captaincy General of Chile (1798) de jure territory). Date 15 September 2012, 20:01 (UTC)
Viceroyalty of Peru The Governorate of New Castile ( Gobernación de Nueva Castilla , pronounced [ɡoβeɾnaˈθjon de ˈnweβa kasˈtiʎa] ) [ 1 ] was the gubernatorial region administered to Francisco Pizarro in 1529 by King Charles I of Spain , of which he was appointed governor.
The viceroyalty (Spanish: virreinato) was a local, ... Viceroyalty of Peru: Lima: 1542–1824 Achieved independence as Peru: Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata ...
This article lists the viceroys of Peru, who ruled the Viceroyalty of Peru from 1544 to 1824 in the name of the monarch of Spain.The territories under de jure rule by the viceroys included in the 16th and 17th century nearly all of South America except eastern Brazil.
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The Viceroyalty of Peru (Virreinato del Perú) — Spanish colonial viceroyalty in western South America from 1542 to 1824. Its territories included present day Peru , Colombia , and Chile . From 1542–1776, it included territory in modern Argentina , Uruguay , and Paraguay as well; in 1776, they were split off to the Category:Viceroyalty of ...