Real Audiencia of Chile
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The Real Audiencia of Chile was a Spanish colonial-era government body established as a provincial authority under the Viceroy of Peru. It was first installed in 1565 at the city of Concepción in Chile. In 1609 it was moved to Santiago.
The body consisted in the Royal Governor of Chile, four oidores (literally hearers) , and a fiscal or state prosecutor. It was dissolved in 1811 after supporting the Figueroa mutiny, a monarchist uprising against the new republicans, being replaced by the Tribunal de Apelaciones or Appeals Court. With the temporary return of the Spanish imperial power after the Battle of Rancagua, the body was reconstituted by the new Governor, Mariano Osorio. It functioned until 1818, when it was finally shuttered by the government of Bernardo O'Higgins, again replaced by the Appeals Court, this time called the Cámara de Apelaciones. This was in turn the ancestor of today's Chilean Appeals Court in Santiago.
| Spanish America | ||
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Viceroyalties: New Spain · Peru · Nueva Granada · Río de la Plata | |
| Real Audiencias: Mexico · Guadalajara · Guatemala · Manila · Santo Domingo | ||
| Lima · Cusco · Chile · Bogota · Panama · Caracas · Quito · Buenos Aires · Charcas | ||
| Captancies General: Philippines · Cuba · Yucatan · Guatemala · Venezuela · Chile | ||
