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Viceroyalty of Peru

Created in 1542, the Viceroyalty of Peru (in Spanish, Virreinato del Perú) contained most of Spanish-ruled South America until the creation of the separate viceroyalties of New Granada (now Colombia, Ecuador, Panamá and Venezuela, the last-named previously in the Viceroyalty of New Spain) in 1717 and River Plate (Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay) in 1776. The Viceroyalty ended with the independence of the republics of Chile (1818) and Peru (1821).

During the 17th century the Viceroyalty contained six audiencias or provincial administrations: Panamá, Santa Fé de Bogotá (Colombia), Quito (Ecuador), Lima (Peru proper), Charcas (Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay) and Chile.

List of Viceroys

• Blasco Núñez Vela 1544-1546
• Antonio de Mendoza 1551-1552
• Andres Hurtado de Mendoza 1555-
• Diego López de Zúñiga y Velazco
• Francisco de Toledo, 1559-1581
• Luis de Velasco, 1595-1604
• Ambrosio O'Higgins 1796-1801
• Gabriel Gaspar Avilés
• Jose Fernando Abascal, 1806-1816
• Joaquin Pezuela 1817-1821
• Jose de la Serna 1821-1824

See also

• Viceroyalty
• South America
• History of Peru