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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.
In 1542 [57] [58] or 1543, [59] the Viceroyalty of Peru (Virreinato del Perú) was established, with authority over most of Spanish-ruled South America. [57] Colombia , Ecuador , Panamá (after 1571) and Venezuela were split off as the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( Virreinato de Nueva Granada ) in 1717, [ 60 ] [ 61 ] and Argentina , Bolivia ...
The collections that arrived in Cádiz in 1788 were in the most part in good condition, and were housed in Madrid's Royal Botanical Garden and the Gabinete de Historia Natural, the precursor of the Museum of Natural History. The discoveries included about 150 new genera and 500 new species, which still retain the names given them by Ruiz and ...
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The viceroyalty (Spanish: virreinato) was a local, political, social, and administrative institution, created by the Spanish monarchy in the sixteenth century, for ruling its overseas territories.
Peruvian sculpture and painting began to define themselves from the ateliers founded by monks, who were strongly influenced by the Sevillian Baroque School.In this context, the stalls of the Cathedral choir, the fountain of the Main Square of Lima [2] both by Pedro de Noguera, and a great part of the colonial production were registered.
Kauffmann Doig, Federico: Historia y arte del Perú antiguo. Vol. 1, pp. 136–138. Lima, Ediciones PEISA, 2002. ISBN 9972-40-213-4; Kaulicke, Peter: El Perú Antiguo I. Los períodos arcaico y formativo, pp. 38. Colección Historia del Perú, editada por la Empresa Editora El Comercio S.A. Lima, 2010. ISBN 978-612-4069-86-4