Governorate of New Toledo

The Spanish Imperial Governorate of New Toledo was formed from the previous southern half of the Inca Empire, stretching south into present day central Chile, and east into present day central Brazil.

Governorate of New Toledo

Gobernación de Nueva Toledo
1529–1542
Spanish map of the administrative division of New Castile and New Toledo made in 1535
StatusSpanish colony
CapitalCuzco (Claimed by Diego de Almagro)
Official languagesSpanish (de facto)
Religion
Roman Catholicism
GovernmentMonarchy
King 
• 1516–1556
Charles I
Governor 
• 1529–1538
Diego de Almagro
Historical eraSpanish Empire
1529
• Viceroy of Peru
1542
CurrencyEscudo
Preceded by		Succeeded by
Inca Empire
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Viceroyalty of Peru

Established by King Charles I of Spain in 1528. Diego de Almagro was the appointed Spanish colonial governor.

It was replaced by the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru in 1542.

Governorates in Peruvian region

After the first 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 (not to be confused with the later New Kingdom of León), 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.

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