Everything about The Captaincy General Of Guatemala totally explained
The
Captaincy General of Guatemala (
Spanish:
Capitanía General de Guatemala), also known as the
Kingdom of Guatemala (Spanish:
Reino de Guatemala), was an administrative division in
Spanish America which covered much of
Central America, including what are now
Costa Rica,
Nicaragua,
Honduras,
El Salvador,
Guatemala, and the Mexican state of
Chiapas. It was founded in
1540, with the city of
Santiago de los Caballeros de Goathemala as its capital. However, this settlement was destroyed in
1542 by a flood, and the new capital of
Antigua Guatemala (
photos
), was founded to replace the old capital. Although it became one of the richest of the
New World capitals, this city was itself ordered abandoned in
1776, after further earthquakes destroyed it. The third capital was the modern-day
Guatemala City.
The Captaincy General was effectively ended in
1821, when the Guatemalan elite rebelled against Spain. While the region remained politically cohesive for a short time (in the form of the
United Provinces of Central America), centrifugal forces soon pulled the individual provinces apart.
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