| Republic of New Granada República de la Nueva Granada |
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| Motto Libertad y Orden (English: Liberty and Order) |
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| Republic of the New Granada; Sub-divisions in 1851 | |||||
| Capital | Santa Fe de Bogotá | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholic | ||||
| Government | Republic | ||||
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| - Established | October 20, 1831 | ||||
| - Bill of rights¹ | 1853 | ||||
| - Constitutional Change | April 11, 1858 | ||||
| Currency | Peso | ||||
| Today part of | Brazil Colombia Costa Rica Ecuador Nicaragua Panama Peru Venezuela |
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| ¹ Abolition of slavery, and suffrage to all males over 21. | |||||
The Republic of New Granada was a centralist republic consisting primarily of present-day Colombia and Panama with smaller portions of today's Ecuador, and Venezuela. It was created after the dissolution in 1830 of Gran Colombia. It was later abolished in 1858 when the Granadine Confederation was created.
The territory of the Republic was divided into provinces. Each province was composed of one or more cantons, each canton was divided into several districts parish.
Likewise, the Republic covered some territories in the peripheries of the country.