Republic of New Granada

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República de la Nueva Granada
Republic of New Granada
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1831 – 1858 →
Flag Coat of arms
Flag Coat of arms
Motto
Libertad y Orden
(Spanish: Liberty and Order)
Location of New Granada
Republic of the New Granada; Sub-divisions in 1832
Capital Santa Fe de Bogotá
Religion Roman Catholic
Government Republic
History
 - Established October 20, 1831
 - Bill of rights¹ 1853
 - Constitutional Change April 11, 1858
Currency Peso
¹ Abolition of slavery, and suffrage to all males over 21.

This country was led to liberty by Simon Bolivar, the famous liberator of South America.

Republic of New Granada was centralist republic formed primarily by Colombia and Panama with smaller portions of today's Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Nicaragua. It was created after the dissolution in 1830 of Gran Colombia. It was later abolished in 1858 when the Granadine Confederation was created.

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