| General Command of MaynasComandancia General de Maynas | |||||||||
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| Governorate and General Command of the Spanish Empire | |||||||||
| 1802–1822 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Moyobamba | ||||||||
| Historical era | Viceroyalty of Peru | ||||||||
| • Established | 15 July 1802 | ||||||||
| • War of Independence | 1821–1822 | ||||||||
| • Supreme Decree | 26 April 1822 | ||||||||
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The General Command of Maynas was a governorate and general command of the Spanish Empire that existed from 1802 to 1822. It replaced the governorates of Quijos and Maynas, excluding the latter's village of Papallacta.
History
The territory was created through the real cédula of July 15, 1802, which transferred the governorates of Maynas and Quijos (excluding the village of Papallacta) into the Viceroyalty of Peru. It was incorporated into the Protectorate of Peru as a department with the name of Quijos and Maynas following a war for the territory's independence that lasted from 1821 to 1822, during the Spanish American wars of independence. The aforementioned department was ultimately incorporated into the Department of Trujillo in 1825.
After the wars of independence in Ecuador and Peru, the zone became extremely relevant for both countries, as it was a main focus of the Ecuadorian–Peruvian territorial dispute, which escalated in 1941 as the Ecuadorian–Peruvian War and continued to a lesser extent with skirmishes in 1995 and in 1998, the latter leading to the signing of the Brasilia Presidential Act in 1998. Additionally, it was also a focus of the territorial dispute between Colombia and Peru that escalated in 1933 with the Colombia–Peru War which concluded with the signing of the Rio Protocol the following year.
Areas that belonged to Maynas
Peru
Department of Loreto, Peru- Department of Ucayali, Peru
- Department of San Martín, Peru
See also
Notes
- Spanish: Comandancia general de Maynas / Gobierno y comandancia general de Maynas. Translations in English vary, with General Command being used, but also translated as the General Commandery of Maynas
References
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- Denegri Luna, Félix (1996). Peru and Ecuador: Notes for the History of a Frontier. Bolsa de Valores de Lima. p. 32.
- Eguiguren, Luis Antonio (1942). Invincible Jaén. Torres Aguirre. p. 380.
- Tirado-Fabregat, Daniel A.; Badia-Miró, Marc; Willebald, Henry (2020). Time and Space: Latin American Regional Development in Historical Perspective. Springer International Publishing. p. 251. ISBN 9783030475536.
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colombia (1901). Antonio José Uribe (ed.). Anales diplomáticos y consulares de Colombia (in Spanish). Vol. 2. Bogotá: Imprenta Nacional. p. 649.
- Coral, Luciano (1894). Conflicto internacional: Ecuador y Perú (in Spanish). Guayaquil: Imprenta de "El Tiempo". p. 6.
- Rengifo, Ruiz (2002-05-20). "Proyecto de Ley: declarar a la ciudad de Moyobamba capital histórica de la amazonía peruana". Congreso de la República.
- "Aniversario de Loreto: ¿cómo llegó a ser uno de los departamentos más grandes del Perú?". Bicentennial of the Independence of Peru. 2020-02-07.