Governorate of New Castile
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Governorship of New Castile Gobernación de Nueva Castilla | |||||||||||
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1528–1542 | |||||||||||
![]() Spanish map of the administrative division of New Castile made in 1535 | |||||||||||
Status | Spanish colony | ||||||||||
Capital | Jauja 1533–1535 Lima after 1535 | ||||||||||
Common languages | Official: Spanish (de facto); common: Quechua, Kichwa, Aymara, Puquina. | ||||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||
King | |||||||||||
• 1516–1556 | Charles I | ||||||||||
Governor | |||||||||||
• 1528–1541 | Francisco Pizarro | ||||||||||
• 1541–1544 | Cristóbal Vaca de Castro | ||||||||||
• 1544–1548 | Gonzalo Pizarro (Self-proclaimed; unrecognized by Spanish court until death) | ||||||||||
Historical era | Spanish Empire | ||||||||||
1528 | |||||||||||
• Appointment of Blasco Nunez Vela as Viceroy of Peru | 1542 | ||||||||||
Currency | Peso | ||||||||||
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The Governorate of New Castile (Gobernación de Nueva Castilla, pronounced [goβeɾnaˈθjon ðe ˈnweβa kasˈtiʎa]) was the gubernatorial region administered to Francisco Pizarro in 1528 by King Charles I of Spain, of which he was appointed governor.
The region roughly consisted of modern Peru and was after the foundation of Lima in 1535 divided. The conquest of the Inca empire in 1531–1533, performed by Pizarro and his brothers set the basis for the territorial boundaries of New Castile.
Governorates in Peruvian region
After the territorial division of South America between Spain and Portugal, the Peruvian colonial administration was divided into four entities:
- Governorate of New Castile, consisting of the territories from roughly the Ecuadorian-Colombian border in the north to Cuzco in the south.
- Governorate of New Toledo, forming the previous southern half of the Inca empire, stretching towards central Chile.
- New Andalusia Governorate, which was not formally conquered by Spain until decades later.
- Governorate of New Léon, the southernmost part of the continent.
This territorial division set the basis for the colonial administration of South America for several decades. It was formally dissolved in 1544, when King Charles I sent his personal envoy, Blasco Núñez Vela, to govern the newly founded Viceroyalty of Peru that replaced the governorates.
See also
- List of Viceroys of Peru
- Viceroyalty of Peru
- Spanish colonization of the Americas
- Spanish Empire
- Nueva Castilla in the Spanish East Indies
References
- Use dmy dates from April 2012
- Governorates of the Spanish Empire
- Colonial Peru
- Spanish colonization of the Americas
- 1520s in Peru
- 1530s in Peru
- 1540s in Peru
- States and territories established in 1528
- 1528 establishments in the Spanish Empire
- 1528 establishments in South America
- States and territories disestablished in 1542
- 1542 disestablishments in the Spanish Empire
- 1542 disestablishments in South America
- 1540s in the Viceroyalty of Peru
- 16th century in the Spanish Empire