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id="toc-Venezuela" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Venezuela"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7</span> <span>Venezuela</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Venezuela-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Río_de_la_Plata_and_Paraguay" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Río_de_la_Plata_and_Paraguay"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8</span> <span>Río de la Plata and Paraguay</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Río_de_la_Plata_and_Paraguay-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-United_States" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_States"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9</span> <span>United States</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_States-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li 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<span>Indigenous peoples and colonial rule</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Indigenous_peoples_and_colonial_rule-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Council_of_the_Indies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Council_of_the_Indies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Council of the Indies</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Council_of_the_Indies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Viceroyalties" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Viceroyalties"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>Viceroyalties</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Viceroyalties-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Audiencias,_the_high_courts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Audiencias,_the_high_courts"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6</span> <span>Audiencias, the high courts</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Audiencias,_the_high_courts-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Civil_administrative_districts,_provinces" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Civil_administrative_districts,_provinces"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.7</span> <span>Civil administrative districts, provinces</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Civil_administrative_districts,_provinces-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cabildos_or_town_councils" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cabildos_or_town_councils"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.8</span> <span>Cabildos or town councils</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cabildos_or_town_councils-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li 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data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonizaci%C3%B3n_espa%C3%B1ola_d%27Am%C3%A9rica" title="Colonización española d'América – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Colonización española d'América" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8F_%D0%90%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BA%D1%96" title="Іспанская каланізацыя Амерыкі – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Іспанская каланізацыя Амерыкі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Испанска колонизация на Америка – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Испанска колонизация на Америка" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonitzaci%C3%B3_espanyola_d%27Am%C3%A8rica" title="Colonització espanyola d'Amèrica – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Colonització espanyola d'Amèrica" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquista" title="Conquista – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Conquista" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spansk_kolonisering_af_Amerika" title="Spansk kolonisering af Amerika – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Spansk kolonisering af Amerika" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonizaci%C3%B3n_espa%C3%B1ola_de_Am%C3%A9rica" title="Colonización española de América – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Colonización española de América" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispana_koloniado_de_Ameriko" title="Hispana koloniado de Ameriko – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Hispana koloniado de Ameriko" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikako_espainiar_kolonizazioa" title="Amerikako espainiar kolonizazioa – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Amerikako espainiar kolonizazioa" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87_%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7" title="استعمارگری اسپانیا در قاره آمریکا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="استعمارگری اسپانیا در قاره آمریکا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonisation_espagnole_de_l%27Am%C3%A9rique" title="Colonisation espagnole de l'Amérique – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Colonisation espagnole de l'Amérique" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonizaci%C3%B3n_espa%C3%B1ola_de_Am%C3%A9rica" title="Colonización española de América – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Colonización española de América" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BF%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%AF%D5%AB%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%A1" title="Կոնկիստա – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Կոնկիստա" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A3" title="स्पेन द्वारा अमेरिका का उपनिवेशीकरण – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="स्पेन द्वारा अमेरिका का उपनिवेशीकरण" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0panjolska_kolonizacija_Amerike" title="Španjolska kolonizacija Amerike – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Španjolska kolonizacija Amerike" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolonisasi_Spanyol_di_Amerika" title="Kolonisasi Spanyol di Amerika – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Kolonisasi Spanyol di Amerika" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landvinningar_Sp%C3%A1nverja_%C3%AD_Amer%C3%ADku" title="Landvinningar Spánverja í Ameríku – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Landvinningar Spánverja í Ameríku" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonizzazione_spagnola_delle_Americhe" title="Colonizzazione spagnola delle Americhe – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Colonizzazione spagnola delle Americhe" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%96%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94" title="הקולוניאליזם הספרדי באמריקה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="הקולוניאליזם הספרדי באמריקה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%94%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9E%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98_%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%96%E1%83%90%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="ამერიკის ესპანური კოლონიზაცია – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ამერიკის ესპანური კოლონიზაცია" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonizatio_Americae_Hispanica" title="Colonizatio Americae Hispanica – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Colonizatio Americae Hispanica" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ispanijos_kolonijos_Amerikoje" title="Ispanijos kolonijos Amerikoje – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Ispanijos kolonijos Amerikoje" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Шпанска колонизација на Америка – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Шпанска колонизација на Америка" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanjanahan-tany_espani%C3%B4la_tany_Amerika" title="Fanjanahan-tany espaniôla tany Amerika – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Fanjanahan-tany espaniôla tany Amerika" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penjajahan_Sepanyol_di_Amerika" title="Penjajahan Sepanyol di Amerika – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Penjajahan Sepanyol di Amerika" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AB%E3%82%88%E3%82%8B%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AB%E5%A4%A7%E9%99%B8%E3%81%AE%E6%A4%8D%E6%B0%91%E5%9C%B0%E5%8C%96" title="スペインによるアメリカ大陸の植民地化 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="スペインによるアメリカ大陸の植民地化" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spansk_kolonisering_av_Amerika" title="Spansk kolonisering av Amerika – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Spansk kolonisering av Amerika" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7_%D8%AF%DB%8C_%DB%81%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA" title="امریکا دی ہسپانوی نوآبادیات – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="امریکا دی ہسپانوی نوآبادیات" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7_%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%DB%90_%D9%88%DA%86%DB%90_%D9%87%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A_%DA%9A%DA%A9%DB%90%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%A9" title="د امریکا د لویې وچې هسپانوي ښکېلاک – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="د امریکا د لویې وچې هسپانوي ښکېلاک" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiszpa%C5%84ski_podb%C3%B3j_Ameryki" title="Hiszpański podbój Ameryki – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Hiszpański podbój Ameryki" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloniza%C3%A7%C3%A3o_espanhola_da_Am%C3%A9rica" title="Colonização espanhola da América – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Colonização espanhola da América" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonizarea_spaniol%C4%83_a_Americilor" title="Colonizarea spaniolă a Americilor – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Colonizarea spaniolă a Americilor" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kastilla_Atipay" title="Kastilla Atipay – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Kastilla Atipay" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%90%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Испанская колонизация Америки – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Испанская колонизация Америки" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0" title="Конкииста – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Конкииста" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="Spanish colonization of the Americas – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Spanish colonization of the Americas" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquista" title="Conquista – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Conquista" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0panska_kolonizacija_Amerik" title="Španska kolonizacija Amerik – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Španska kolonizacija Amerik" 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href="/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile" title="Isabella I of Castile">Isabella I of Castile</a>. These overseas territories of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish Empire</a> were under the jurisdiction of <a href="/wiki/Crown_of_Castile" title="Crown of Castile">Crown of Castile</a> until the last territory was lost in <a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">1898</a>. Spaniards saw the dense populations of <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">indigenous peoples</a> as an important economic resource and the territory claimed as potentially producing great wealth for individual Spaniards and the crown. Religion played an important role in the Spanish conquest and incorporation of indigenous peoples, bringing them into the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> peacefully or by force. The crown created civil and religious structures to administer the vast territory. Spanish men and women settled in greatest numbers where there were dense indigenous populations and the existence of <a href="/wiki/Exploitation_colonialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Exploitation colonialism">valuable resources for extraction</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Spanish Empire claimed jurisdiction over the New World in the Caribbean and North and South America, with the exception of Brazil, ceded to Portugal by the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas" title="Treaty of Tordesillas">Treaty of Tordesillas</a>. Other European powers, including England, France, and the Dutch Republic, took possession of territories initially claimed by Spain. Although the overseas territories under the jurisdiction of the Spanish crown are now commonly called "colonies" the term was not used until the second half of 18th century. The process of Spanish settlement, now called "colonization" and the "colonial era" are terms contested by scholars of Latin America<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and more generally.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is estimated that during the period 1492–1832, a total of 1.86 million Spaniards settled in the Americas, and a further 3.5 million immigrated during the post-independence era (1850–1950); the estimate is 250,000 in the 16th century and most during the 18th century, as immigration was encouraged by the new <a href="/wiki/Bourbon_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Bourbon dynasty">Bourbon dynasty</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas#European_colonization" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">indigenous population plummeted</a> by an estimated 80% in the first century and a half following Columbus's voyages, primarily through <a href="/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics" title="Native American disease and epidemics">the spread of infectious diseases</a>. Practices of <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_colonial_Spanish_America" title="Slavery in colonial Spanish America">forced labor and slavery</a> for resource extraction, and forced resettlement in <a href="/wiki/Reductions" title="Reductions">new villages</a> and later <a href="/wiki/Spanish_missions_in_the_Americas" title="Spanish missions in the Americas">missions</a> were implemented.<sup id="cite_ref-Histoire_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Histoire-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alarmed by the precipitous fall in indigenous populations and reports of settlers' exploitation of their labor, the crown put in place laws to protect their newly converted indigenous vassals. Europeans imported enslaved Africans to the early Caribbean settlements to replace indigenous labor and enslaved and free Africans were part of colonial-era populations. A mixed-race <i><a href="/wiki/Casta" title="Casta">casta</a></i> population came into being during the period of Spanish rule. </p><p>In the early 19th century, the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_American_wars_of_independence" title="Spanish American wars of independence">Spanish American wars of independence</a> resulted in the secession of most of Spanish America and the establishment of independent nations. Continuing under crown rule were <a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Cuba" title="Captaincy General of Cuba">Cuba</a> and <a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Captaincy General of Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>, along with the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, which were all lost to the United States in 1898, following the <a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a>, ending its rule in the Americas. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Imperial_expansion">Imperial expansion</h2></div> <p>The expansion of Spain's territory took place under the Catholic Monarchs <a href="/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile" title="Isabella I of Castile">Isabella I of Castile</a> and her husband <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_II_of_Aragon" title="Ferdinand II of Aragon">Ferdinand II of Aragon</a>, whose marriage marked the beginning of Spanish power beyond the <a href="/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula" title="Iberian Peninsula">Iberian Peninsula</a>. They pursued a policy of joint rule of their kingdoms and created the initial stage of a single <a href="/wiki/Monarchy_of_Spain" title="Monarchy of Spain">Spanish monarchy</a>, completed under the eighteenth-century Bourbon monarchs. The first expansion of territory was the conquest of the Muslim <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Granada" title="Emirate of Granada">Emirate of Granada</a> on 1 January 1492, the culmination of the Christian <a href="/wiki/Reconquista" title="Reconquista">Reconquest</a> of the Iberian Peninsula, held by the Muslims since 711. On 31 March 1492, the Catholic Monarch ordered the expulsion of the Jews in Spain who refused to convert to Christianity. Having departed from the port of <a href="/wiki/Palos_de_la_Frontera" title="Palos de la Frontera">Palos de la Frontera</a> on 3 August 1492, on 12 October 1492, Genoese mariner <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a> and his crew made landfall in the Western Hemisphere, and in 1493 permanent Spanish settlement of the Americas began.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Castile and Aragon were ruled jointly by their respective monarchs, but they remained separate kingdoms. When the Catholic Monarchs gave official approval for the plans for Columbus's voyage to reach "the Indies" by sailing West, the funding came from the queen of Castile. The profits from Spanish expedition flowed to Castile. The <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Portugal" title="Kingdom of Portugal">Kingdom of Portugal</a> authorized a series of voyages down the coast of Africa and when they rounded the southern tip, were able to sail to India and further east. Spain sought similar wealth, and authorized Columbus's voyage sailing west. Once the Spanish settlement in the Caribbean occurred, Spain and Portugal formalized a division of the world between them in the 1494 <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas" title="Treaty of Tordesillas">Treaty of Tordesillas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The deeply pious Isabella saw the expansion of Spain's sovereignty inextricably paired with the evangelization of non-Christian peoples, the so-called "spiritual conquest" with the military conquest. <a href="/wiki/Pope_Alexander_VI" title="Pope Alexander VI">Pope Alexander VI</a> in a 4 May 1493 papal decree, <i><a href="/wiki/Inter_caetera" title="Inter caetera">Inter caetera</a></i>, divided rights to lands in the Western Hemisphere between Spain and Portugal on the proviso that they spread Christianity.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These formal arrangements between Spain and Portugal and the pope were ignored by other European powers, with the French, the English, and the Dutch seizing territory in the Caribbean and in North America claimed by Spain but not effectively settled. Portugal's claim to part of South America under the Treaty of Tordesillas resulted in the creation of Portuguese colony of Brazil. Although during the rule of <a href="/wiki/Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor">Charles V</a>, the Spanish Empire was the first to be called "<a href="/wiki/The_empire_on_which_the_sun_never_sets" title="The empire on which the sun never sets">The empire on which the sun never sets</a>", under <a href="/wiki/Philip_II_of_Spain" title="Philip II of Spain">Philip II</a> the permanent colonization of the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Philippine Islands">Philippine Islands</a> made it demonstrably true. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_principles_of_expansion">General principles of expansion</h3></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MHN_Rugendas_Descobrimento_da_Am%C3%A9rica.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/MHN_Rugendas_Descobrimento_da_Am%C3%A9rica.jpg/300px-MHN_Rugendas_Descobrimento_da_Am%C3%A9rica.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/MHN_Rugendas_Descobrimento_da_Am%C3%A9rica.jpg/450px-MHN_Rugendas_Descobrimento_da_Am%C3%A9rica.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/MHN_Rugendas_Descobrimento_da_Am%C3%A9rica.jpg/600px-MHN_Rugendas_Descobrimento_da_Am%C3%A9rica.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3002" data-file-height="2244" /></a><figcaption>"The Discovery of America" (<a href="/wiki/Johann_Moritz_Rugendas" title="Johann Moritz Rugendas">Johann Moritz Rugendas</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>The Spanish expansion has sometimes been succinctly summed up as being motivated by "gold, glory, God", that is, the search for material wealth, the enhancement of the conquerors' and the crown's position, and the expansion of Christianity to the exclusion of other religious traditions. In the extension of Spanish sovereignty to its overseas territories, authority for expeditions (<i>entradas</i>) of discovery, conquest, and settlement resided in the monarchy.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Expeditions required authorization by the crown, which laid out the terms of such expedition. Virtually all expeditions after the Columbus voyages, which were funded by the crown of Castile, were done at the expense of the leader of the expedition and its participants. Although often the participants, <a href="/wiki/Conquistador" title="Conquistador">conquistadors</a>, are now termed "soldiers", they were not paid soldiers in ranks of an army, but rather <a href="/wiki/Mercenary" title="Mercenary">soldiers of fortune</a>, who joined an expedition with the expectation of profiting from it. The leader of an expedition, the <i><a href="/wiki/Adelantado" title="Adelantado">adelantado</a></i> was a senior with material wealth and standing who could persuade the crown to issue him a license for an expedition. He also had to attract participants to the expedition who staked their own lives and meager fortunes on the expectation of the expedition's success. The leader of the expedition pledged the larger share of capital to the enterprise, which in many ways functioned as a commercial firm. Upon the success of the expedition, the spoils of war were divvied up in proportion to the amount a participant initially staked, with the leader receiving the largest share. Participants supplied their own armor and weapons, and those who had a horse received two shares, one for himself, the second recognizing the value of the horse as a machine of war.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the conquest era, the names of two Spaniards are popularly known because they led the conquests of two indigenous empires, <a href="/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s" title="Hernán Cortés">Hernán Cortés</a>, leader of the expedition involved in the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_Empire" title="Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire">conquest of the Aztec Empire</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Pizarro" title="Francisco Pizarro">Francisco Pizarro</a>, leader of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Inca_Empire" title="Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire">conquest of the Inca</a> in Peru. Spanish conquerors took advantage of indigenous rivalries to forge alliances with groups seeing an advantage for their own goals. This is most clearly seen in the conquest of the <a href="/wiki/Aztec_Empire" title="Aztec Empire">Aztec Empire</a> with the alliance of the Nahua <a href="/wiki/Altepetl" title="Altepetl">city-state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Tlaxcala" title="Tlaxcala">Tlaxcala</a> against the Aztec Empire resulting in lasting benefits to themselves and their descendants. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Caribbean_islands_and_the_Spanish_Main">Caribbean islands and the Spanish Main</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Caribbean" title="History of the Caribbean">History of the Caribbean</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Theodor_de_Bry_78.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Theodor_de_Bry_78.jpeg/220px-Theodor_de_Bry_78.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Theodor_de_Bry_78.jpeg/330px-Theodor_de_Bry_78.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Theodor_de_Bry_78.jpeg/440px-Theodor_de_Bry_78.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="3330" data-file-height="2586" /></a><figcaption>A 16th-century illustration by <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Revolt#Protestantism" class="mw-redirect" title="Dutch Revolt">Flemish Protestant</a> <a href="/wiki/Theodor_de_Bry" title="Theodor de Bry">Theodor de Bry</a> for <a href="/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas" title="Bartolomé de las Casas">Las Casas'</a> <i><a href="/wiki/A_Short_Account_of_the_Destruction_of_the_Indies" title="A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies">A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies</a></i> depicting Taínos fighting back against Spaniards, showing <a href="/wiki/Human_cannibalism" title="Human cannibalism">cannibalism</a> and forcing a Spaniard to swallow molten gold.</figcaption></figure> <p>Patterns of the first Spanish settlements in the Caribbean were to endure there and had a lasting impact on the Spanish Empire.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Until his dying day, Columbus was convinced that he had reached Asia, the Indies. From that misperception the Spanish called the <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">indigenous peoples of the Americas</a>, "Indians" (<i>indios</i>), lumping a multiplicity of civilizations, groups, and individuals into a single category. The Spanish royal government called its overseas possessions "The Indies" until its empire dissolved in the nineteenth century. </p><p>In the Caribbean, because there was no integrated indigenous civilization such as found in Mexico and Peru, there was no large-scale Spanish conquest of indigenous peoples, but there was indigenous resistance to Spanish colonization. Columbus made four voyages to the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indies</a> as the monarchs granted Columbus vast powers of governance over this unknown part of the world. The crown of Castile financed more of his trans-Atlantic journeys, a pattern they would not repeat elsewhere. Effective Spanish settlement began in 1493, when Columbus brought livestock, seeds, agricultural equipment. The first settlement of <a href="/wiki/La_Navidad" title="La Navidad">La Navidad</a>, a crude fort built on his first voyage in 1492, had been abandoned by the time he returned in 1493. He then founded the settlement of <a href="/wiki/La_Isabela" title="La Isabela">La Isabela</a> on the island they named <a href="/wiki/Hispaniola" title="Hispaniola">Hispaniola</a> (now divided into <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a>). </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:De_Bry_1c.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/De_Bry_1c.JPG/220px-De_Bry_1c.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/De_Bry_1c.JPG/330px-De_Bry_1c.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/De_Bry_1c.JPG/440px-De_Bry_1c.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1021" data-file-height="869" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Theodor_de_Bry" title="Theodor de Bry">Theodor de Bry</a> illustration depicting Spanish atrocities during the <a href="/wiki/Hispaniola" title="Hispaniola">conquest of Hispaniola</a>. Las Casas wrote about the cruelty of Spanish settlers: "They erected certain Gibbets, large, but low made, so that their feet almost reached the ground, every one of which was so ordered as to bear Thirteen Persons in Honour and Reverence (as they said blasphemously) of our Redeemer and his Twelve Apostles, under which they made a Fire to burn them to Ashes whilst hanging on them"<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hatuey_monument,_Baracoa,_Cuba.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Hatuey_monument%2C_Baracoa%2C_Cuba.JPG/220px-Hatuey_monument%2C_Baracoa%2C_Cuba.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Hatuey_monument%2C_Baracoa%2C_Cuba.JPG/330px-Hatuey_monument%2C_Baracoa%2C_Cuba.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Hatuey_monument%2C_Baracoa%2C_Cuba.JPG/440px-Hatuey_monument%2C_Baracoa%2C_Cuba.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1515" data-file-height="2272" /></a><figcaption>Bust of <a href="/wiki/Hatuey" title="Hatuey">Hatuey</a>, who rebelled against the Spanish</figcaption></figure> <p>Spanish explorations of other islands in the Caribbean and what turned out to be the mainland of South and Central America occupied them for over two decades. Columbus had promised the crown that the region he now controlled held a huge treasure in the form of gold and spices. Spanish settlers initially found relatively dense populations of indigenous peoples, who were agriculturalists living in villages ruled by leaders not part of a larger integrated political system. The Spanish saw these populations as a source of labor, there for their exploitation, to supply their own settlements with foodstuffs, but more importantly for the Spanish, to extract mineral wealth or produce another valuable commodity for Spanish enrichment. The labor of dense populations of <a href="/wiki/Ta%C3%ADno" title="Taíno">Taínos</a> were allocated as grants to Spanish settlers in an institution known as the <i><a href="/wiki/Encomienda" title="Encomienda">encomienda</a></i>, where particular indigenous settlements were awarded to individual Spaniards. There was surface gold found in early islands, and holders of encomiendas put the indigenous to work panning for it. For all practical purposes, this was slavery. Queen Isabel put an end to formal slavery, declaring the indigenous to be vassals of the crown, but Spaniards' exploitation of indigenous labor continued. The Taíno population on Hispaniola went from hundreds of thousands or millions – the estimates by scholars vary widely – but in the mid-1490s, they were practically wiped out. Disease and overwork, disruption of family life and the agricultural cycle (which caused severe food shortages to Spaniards dependent on them) rapidly decimated the indigenous population. From the Spanish viewpoint, their source of labor and viability of their own settlements was at risk. After the collapse of the Taino population of Hispaniola, Spaniards began raiding indigenous settlements on nearby islands, including <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a>, to enslave those populations, replicating the demographic catastrophe there as well. The names of two indigenous leaders (<i>caciques</i>) who rebelled against Spanish colonization, <a href="/wiki/Enriquillo" title="Enriquillo">Enriquillo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hatuey" title="Hatuey">Hatuey</a> in the Dominican Republic (Hispaniola), have become important.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dominican friar <a href="/wiki/Antonio_de_Montesinos" title="Antonio de Montesinos">Antonio de Montesinos</a> denounced Spanish cruelty and abuse in a sermon in 1511, which comes down to us in the writings of Dominican friar <a href="/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas" title="Bartolomé de las Casas">Bartolomé de las Casas</a>. In 1542 Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote a damning account of this demographic catastrophe, <i>A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies</i>. It was translated quickly to English and became the basis for the anti-Spanish writings, collectively known as the <a href="/wiki/Black_Legend_(Spain)" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Legend (Spain)">Black Legend</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Las Casas spent his long life attempting to defend the indigenous populations and to enlist the Spanish crown in establishing protections for them, seen most prominently in the enactment of the <a href="/wiki/New_Laws" title="New Laws">New Laws</a> of 1542, restricting Spaniards' inheritance of <i>encomiendas</i>. </p><p>The first mainland explorations by Spaniards were followed by a phase of inland expeditions and conquest. In 1500 the city of <a href="/wiki/Nueva_C%C3%A1diz" title="Nueva Cádiz">Nueva Cádiz</a> was founded on the island of <a href="/wiki/Cubagua" class="mw-redirect" title="Cubagua">Cubagua</a>, Venezuela, followed by the founding of Santa Cruz by <a href="/wiki/Alonso_de_Ojeda" title="Alonso de Ojeda">Alonso de Ojeda</a> in the present-day <a href="/wiki/Guajira_Peninsula" title="Guajira Peninsula">Guajira Peninsula</a>. <a href="/wiki/Cuman%C3%A1" title="Cumaná">Cumaná</a> in Venezuela was the first permanent settlement founded by Europeans in the mainland Americas,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 1501 by <a href="/wiki/Franciscan_Order" class="mw-redirect" title="Franciscan Order">Franciscan</a> <a href="/wiki/Friar" title="Friar">friars</a>, but due to successful attacks by the indigenous people, it had to be refounded several times, until <a href="/wiki/Diego_Hern%C3%A1ndez_de_Serpa" title="Diego Hernández de Serpa">Diego Hernández de Serpa</a>'s foundation in 1569. The Spanish founded San Sebastián de Uraba in 1509 but abandoned it within the year. There is indirect evidence that the first permanent Spanish mainland settlement established in the Americas was <a href="/wiki/Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_la_Antigua_del_Dari%C3%A9n" title="Santa María la Antigua del Darién">Santa María la Antigua del Darién</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Spaniards spent over 25 years in the Caribbean where their initial high hopes of dazzling wealth gave way to continuing exploitation of disappearing indigenous populations, exhaustion of local gold mines, initiation of cane sugar cultivation as an export product, and forced migration of enslaved Africans as a labor force. Spaniards continued to expand their presence in the circum-Caribbean region with expeditions. One was by <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Hern%C3%A1ndez_de_C%C3%B3rdoba_(Yucat%C3%A1n_conquistador)" title="Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador)">Francisco Hernández de Córdoba</a> in 1517, another by <a href="/wiki/Juan_de_Grijalva" title="Juan de Grijalva">Juan de Grijalva</a> in 1518, which brought promising news of possibilities there.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even by the mid-1510s, the western Caribbean was largely unexplored by Spaniards. A well-connected settler in Cuba, <a href="/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s" title="Hernán Cortés">Hernán Cortés</a> received authorization in 1519 by the governor of Cuba to form an expedition of exploration-only to this far western region. That expedition was to make world history. The Caribbean islands became less central to Spain's overseas colonization, but remained important strategically and economically, especially the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola. Smaller islands claimed by Spain were lost to the English and the Dutch, with France taking half of Hispaniola and establishing the sugar-producing colony of <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">St-Domingue</a>, as well as also taking other islands.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mexico">Mexico</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_Empire" title="Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire">Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Meeting_of_Cort%C3%A9s_and_Moctezuma_(Conquest_of_Mexico)_Painting.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/The_Meeting_of_Cort%C3%A9s_and_Moctezuma_%28Conquest_of_Mexico%29_Painting.jpg/220px-The_Meeting_of_Cort%C3%A9s_and_Moctezuma_%28Conquest_of_Mexico%29_Painting.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/The_Meeting_of_Cort%C3%A9s_and_Moctezuma_%28Conquest_of_Mexico%29_Painting.jpg/330px-The_Meeting_of_Cort%C3%A9s_and_Moctezuma_%28Conquest_of_Mexico%29_Painting.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/The_Meeting_of_Cort%C3%A9s_and_Moctezuma_%28Conquest_of_Mexico%29_Painting.jpg/440px-The_Meeting_of_Cort%C3%A9s_and_Moctezuma_%28Conquest_of_Mexico%29_Painting.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3230" data-file-height="2160" /></a><figcaption>Meeting of Cortés and Moctezuma, 17th c. depiction</figcaption></figure> <p>With Spanish expansion into central Mexico under conqueror <a href="/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s" title="Hernán Cortés">Hernán Cortés</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_Empire" title="Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire">conquest of the Aztec Empire</a> (1519-1521)Spanish explorers were able to find wealth on the scale that they had long hoped for. Unlike Spanish contact with indigenous populations in the Caribbean, which involved limited armed combat and sometimes the participation of indigenous allies, the conquest of central Mexico was protracted and necessitated significant numbers of indigenous allies, who chose to participate in defeating the Aztec Empire for their own purposes. The conquest of the Aztec Empire involved the combined effort of armies from many indigenous allies, spearheaded by a small Spanish force of conquistadors. The Aztecs did not govern over an empire in the conventional sense but were the rulers of a confederation of dozens of city-states and other polities; the status of each varied from harshly subjugated to closely allied. The Spaniards persuaded the leaders of Aztec vassals and <a href="/wiki/Tlaxcala_(Nahua_state)" title="Tlaxcala (Nahua state)">Tlaxcala</a> (a city-state never conquered by the Aztecs), to ally with them against the Aztecs. Through such methods, the Spaniards came to accumulate a massive force of thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of indigenous warriors. Records of the conquest of central Mexico include accounts by the expedition leader Hernán Cortés, <a href="/wiki/Bernal_D%C3%ADaz_del_Castillo" title="Bernal Díaz del Castillo">Bernal Díaz del Castillo</a> and other Spanish conquistadors, indigenous allies from the city-states <a href="/wiki/Altepetl" title="Altepetl">altepetl</a> of Tlaxcala, <a href="/wiki/Texcoco_(altepetl)" class="mw-redirect" title="Texcoco (altepetl)">Texcoco</a>, and Huexotzinco. In addition, indigenous accounts were written by the defeated from the Aztec capital, <a href="/wiki/Tenochtitlan" title="Tenochtitlan">Tenochtitlan</a>, a case of history being written by those other than the victors.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The capture of the Aztec emperor <a href="/wiki/Moctezuma_II" title="Moctezuma II">Moctezuma II</a>, by Cortés was not a brilliant stroke of innovation, but came from the playbook that the Spanish developed during their period in the Caribbean. The composition of the expedition was the standard pattern, with a senior leader, and participating men investing in the enterprise with the full expectation of rewards if they did not lose their lives. Cortés's seeking indigenous allies was a typical tactic of warfare: divide and conquer. But the indigenous allies had much to gain by throwing off Aztec rule. For the Spaniards' Tlaxcalan allies, their crucial support gained them enduring political legacy into the modern era, the Mexican state of Tlaxcala.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The conquest of central Mexico sparked further Spanish conquests, following the pattern of conquered and consolidated regions being the launching point for further expeditions. These were often led by secondary leaders, such as <a href="/wiki/Pedro_de_Alvarado" title="Pedro de Alvarado">Pedro de Alvarado</a>. Later conquests in Mexico were protracted campaigns with less immediate results than the conquest of the Aztec Empire. The <a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Yucat%C3%A1n" title="Spanish conquest of Yucatán">Spanish conquest of Yucatán</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Guatemala" title="Spanish conquest of Guatemala">Spanish conquest of Guatemala</a>, the conquest of the <a href="/wiki/Pur%C3%A9pecha" title="Purépecha">Purépecha</a> of Michoacan, the <a href="/wiki/Mixt%C3%B3n_War" title="Mixtón War">war of Mexico's west</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Chichimeca_War" title="Chichimeca War">Chichimeca War</a> in northern Mexico expanded Spanish control over territory and indigenous populations stretching thousands of miles.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Not until the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Peru" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish conquest of Peru">conquest of the Incan Empire</a>, which used similar tactics and began in 1532, was the conquest of the Aztecs matched in scale of either territory or treasure. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Peru">Peru</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Inca_Empire" title="Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire">Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_Peru" title="Viceroyalty of Peru">Viceroyalty of Peru</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Millais,_John_Everett_(Sir)_-_Pizarro_Seizing_the_Inca_of_Peru_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Millais%2C_John_Everett_%28Sir%29_-_Pizarro_Seizing_the_Inca_of_Peru_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/220px-Millais%2C_John_Everett_%28Sir%29_-_Pizarro_Seizing_the_Inca_of_Peru_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Millais%2C_John_Everett_%28Sir%29_-_Pizarro_Seizing_the_Inca_of_Peru_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-Millais%2C_John_Everett_%28Sir%29_-_Pizarro_Seizing_the_Inca_of_Peru_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Millais%2C_John_Everett_%28Sir%29_-_Pizarro_Seizing_the_Inca_of_Peru_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/440px-Millais%2C_John_Everett_%28Sir%29_-_Pizarro_Seizing_the_Inca_of_Peru_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4469" data-file-height="3343" /></a><figcaption>Depiction of Pizarro seizing the Inca emperor Atahualpa. <a href="/wiki/John_Everett_Millais" title="John Everett Millais">John Everett Millais</a> 1845.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Inca_Expansion.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Inca_Expansion.svg/220px-Inca_Expansion.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="398" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Inca_Expansion.svg/330px-Inca_Expansion.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Inca_Expansion.svg/440px-Inca_Expansion.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="926" /></a><figcaption>Extent of Inca empire at the Spanish conquest</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1532 at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cajamarca" title="Battle of Cajamarca">Battle of Cajamarca</a> a group of Spaniards under <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Pizarro" title="Francisco Pizarro">Francisco Pizarro</a> and their <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas#South_America" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">indigenous Andean</a> <a href="/wiki/Indian_auxiliaries" title="Indian auxiliaries">Indian auxiliaries</a> native allies ambushed and captured the Emperor <a href="/wiki/Atahualpa" title="Atahualpa">Atahualpa</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Inca_Empire" title="Inca Empire">Inca Empire</a>. It was the first step in a long campaign that took decades of fighting to subdue the mightiest empire in the Americas. In the following years, Spain extended its rule over the Empire of the <a href="/wiki/Inca_civilization" class="mw-redirect" title="Inca civilization">Inca civilization</a>. </p><p>The Spanish took advantage of a recent civil war between the factions of the two brothers Emperor <a href="/wiki/Atahualpa" title="Atahualpa">Atahualpa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hu%C3%A1scar" title="Huáscar">Huáscar</a>, and the enmity of <a href="/wiki/Classification_of_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas#South_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas">indigenous nations</a> the Incas had subjugated, such as the <a href="/wiki/Huanca" title="Huanca">Huanca</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chachapoya_culture" title="Chachapoya culture">Chachapoyas</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ca%C3%B1ari" title="Cañari">Cañaris</a>. In the following years the <a href="/wiki/Conquistador" title="Conquistador">conquistadors</a> and indigenous allies extended control over Greater Andes Region. The Viceroyalty of Perú was established in 1542. The <a href="/wiki/Neo-Inca_State" title="Neo-Inca State">last Inca stronghold</a> was conquered by the Spanish in 1572. </p><p>Peru was the last territory on the continent under Spanish rule, which ended on 9 December 1824 at the Battle of Ayacucho (Spanish rule continued until 1898 in Cuba and Puerto Rico). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chile">Chile</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Conquest_of_Chile" title="Conquest of Chile">Conquest of Chile</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Chile" title="Colonial Chile">Colonial Chile</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Spanish_colonization_attempt_of_the_Strait_of_Magellan" title="Spanish colonization attempt of the Strait of Magellan">Spanish colonization attempt of the Strait of Magellan</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1023981488">@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .rquote{width:auto!important;float:none!important}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote rquote" style="float: right; width: 33%;"><p>[Chile] has four months of winter, no more, and in them, except when there is a quarter moon, when it rains one or two days, all the other days have such a beautiful sunshine...</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/First_relation_letter_from_Pedro_de_Valdivia_to_emperor_Charles_V" title="First relation letter from Pedro de Valdivia to emperor Charles V">First relation letter from Pedro de Valdivia to emperor Charles V</a></cite></div></blockquote> <p>Chile was explored by Spaniards based in Peru, where Spaniards found the fertile soil and <a href="/wiki/Climate_of_Chile" title="Climate of Chile">mild climate</a> attractive. The <a href="/wiki/Mapuche" title="Mapuche">Mapuche</a> people of Chile, whom the Spaniards called <a href="/wiki/Araucanian" class="mw-redirect" title="Araucanian">Araucanians</a>, resisted fiercely. The Spanish did establish the settlement of <a href="/wiki/Santiago_de_Chile" class="mw-redirect" title="Santiago de Chile">Chile</a> in 1541, founded by <a href="/wiki/Pedro_de_Valdivia" title="Pedro de Valdivia">Pedro de Valdivia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-collierchile_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-collierchile-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Southward colonization by the Spanish in Chile halted after the conquest of <a href="/wiki/Chilo%C3%A9_Archipelago" title="Chiloé Archipelago">Chiloé Archipelago</a> in 1567. This is thought to have been the result of an increasingly harsh climate to the south, and the lack of a populous and sedentary indigenous population to settle among for the Spanish in the <a href="/wiki/Fjords_and_channels_of_Chile" title="Fjords and channels of Chile">fjords and channels of Patagonia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Urbina2016_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Urbina2016-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> South of the <a href="/wiki/B%C3%ADo-B%C3%ADo_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Bío-Bío River">Bío-Bío River</a> the Mapuche successfully reversed colonization with the <a href="/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Seven_Cities" title="Destruction of the Seven Cities">Destruction of the Seven Cities</a> in 1599–1604.<sup id="cite_ref-collierchile_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-collierchile-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This Mapuche victory laid the foundation for the establishment of a Spanish-Mapuche frontier called <a href="/wiki/La_Frontera,_Chile" class="mw-redirect" title="La Frontera, Chile">La Frontera</a>. Within this frontier the city of <a href="/wiki/Concepci%C3%B3n,_Chile" title="Concepción, Chile">Concepción</a> assumed the role of "military capital" of Spanish-ruled Chile.<sup id="cite_ref-encicloreg2006_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-encicloreg2006-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With a hostile indigenous population, no obvious mineral or other exploitable resources, and little strategic value, Chile was a fringe area of colonial Spanish America, hemmed in geographically by the Andes to the east, Pacific Ocean to the west, and indigenous to the south.<sup id="cite_ref-collierchile_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-collierchile-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_Granada">New Granada</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Muisca" title="Spanish conquest of the Muisca">Spanish conquest of the Muisca</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_New_Granada" title="Spanish conquest of New Granada">Spanish conquest of New Granada</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gonzalo_Jim%C3%A9nez_de_Quesada,_Banrep.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Gonzalo_Jim%C3%A9nez_de_Quesada%2C_Banrep.jpg/220px-Gonzalo_Jim%C3%A9nez_de_Quesada%2C_Banrep.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="339" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Gonzalo_Jim%C3%A9nez_de_Quesada%2C_Banrep.jpg/330px-Gonzalo_Jim%C3%A9nez_de_Quesada%2C_Banrep.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Gonzalo_Jim%C3%A9nez_de_Quesada%2C_Banrep.jpg/440px-Gonzalo_Jim%C3%A9nez_de_Quesada%2C_Banrep.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="1108" /></a><figcaption>Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada</figcaption></figure> <p>Between 1537 and 1543, six<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Spanish expeditions entered highland Colombia, conquered the <a href="/wiki/Muisca_Confederation" title="Muisca Confederation">Muisca Confederation</a>, and set up the <a href="/wiki/New_Kingdom_of_Granada" title="New Kingdom of Granada">New Kingdom of Granada</a> (Spanish: <i lang="es">Nuevo Reino de Granada</i>). <a href="/wiki/Gonzalo_Jim%C3%A9nez_de_Quesada" title="Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada">Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada</a> was the leading conquistador with <a href="/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_P%C3%A9rez_de_Quesada" title="Hernán Pérez de Quesada">his brother Hernán</a> second in command.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was governed by the president of the <a href="/wiki/Audiencia_of_Bogot%C3%A1" class="mw-redirect" title="Audiencia of Bogotá">Audiencia of Bogotá</a>, and comprised an area corresponding mainly to modern-day <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a> and parts of <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a>. The <a href="/wiki/List_of_conquistadors_in_Colombia" title="List of conquistadors in Colombia">conquistadors</a> originally organized it as a <a href="/wiki/Captain_general" title="Captain general">captaincy general</a> within the <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_Peru" title="Viceroyalty of Peru">Viceroyalty of Peru</a>. The crown established the <i><a href="/wiki/Audiencia_Real" class="mw-redirect" title="Audiencia Real">audiencia</a></i> in 1549. Ultimately, the kingdom became part of the <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Granada" title="Viceroyalty of New Granada">Viceroyalty of New Granada</a> first in 1717 and permanently in 1739. After several attempts to set up independent states in the 1810s, the kingdom and the viceroyalty ceased to exist altogether in 1819 with the establishment of <a href="/wiki/Gran_Colombia" title="Gran Colombia">Gran Colombia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Venezuela">Venezuela</h3></div> <p>Venezuela was first visited by Europeans during the 1490s, when Columbus was in control of the region, and the region as a source for indigenous slaves for Spaniards in Cuba and Hispaniola, since the Spanish destruction of the local indigenous population. There were few permanent settlements, but Spaniards settled the coastal islands of <a href="/wiki/Cubagua" class="mw-redirect" title="Cubagua">Cubagua</a> and <a href="/wiki/Island_of_Margarita" class="mw-redirect" title="Island of Margarita">Margarita</a> to exploit the pearl beds. Western Venezuela's history took an atypical direction in 1528, when Spain's first Hapsburg monarch, <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles I of Spain">Charles I</a> granted rights to colonize to the German banking family of the <a href="/wiki/Welser" class="mw-redirect" title="Welser">Welsers</a>. Charles sought to be <a href="/wiki/1519_Imperial_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1519 Imperial election">elected</a> <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Holy Roman Emperor">Holy Roman Emperor</a> and was willing to pay whatever it took to achieve that. He became deeply indebted to the German <a href="/wiki/Welser" class="mw-redirect" title="Welser">Welser</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fugger" class="mw-redirect" title="Fugger">Fugger</a> banking families. To satisfy his debts to the Welsers, he granted them the right to colonize and exploit western Venezuela, with the proviso that they found two towns with 300 settlers each and construct fortifications. They established the colony of <a href="/wiki/Klein-Venedig" title="Klein-Venedig">Klein-Venedig</a> in 1528. They founded the towns of <a href="/wiki/Coro,_Venezuela" title="Coro, Venezuela">Coro</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maracaibo" title="Maracaibo">Maracaibo</a>. They were aggressive in making their investment pay, alienating the indigenous populations and Spaniards alike. Charles revoked the grant in 1545, ending the episode of <a href="/wiki/German_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="German colonization of the Americas">German colonization</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Río_de_la_Plata_and_Paraguay"><span id="R.C3.ADo_de_la_Plata_and_Paraguay"></span>Río de la Plata and Paraguay</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Buenos_Aires_-_San_Telmo_-_Parque_Lezama_-_20071215c.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Buenos_Aires_-_San_Telmo_-_Parque_Lezama_-_20071215c.jpg/220px-Buenos_Aires_-_San_Telmo_-_Parque_Lezama_-_20071215c.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Buenos_Aires_-_San_Telmo_-_Parque_Lezama_-_20071215c.jpg/330px-Buenos_Aires_-_San_Telmo_-_Parque_Lezama_-_20071215c.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Buenos_Aires_-_San_Telmo_-_Parque_Lezama_-_20071215c.jpg/440px-Buenos_Aires_-_San_Telmo_-_Parque_Lezama_-_20071215c.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2580" data-file-height="3880" /></a><figcaption>Monument to Pedro de Mendoza, Buenos Aires</figcaption></figure> <p>Argentina was not conquered or later exploited in the grand fashion of central Mexico or Peru, since the indigenous population was sparse and there were no precious metals or other valuable resources. Although today <a href="/wiki/Buenos_Aires" title="Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</a> at the mouth of <a href="/wiki/R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata" title="Río de la Plata">Río de la Plata</a> is a major metropolis, it held no interest for Spaniards and the 1535–36 settlement failed and was abandoned by 1541. <a href="/wiki/Pedro_de_Mendoza" title="Pedro de Mendoza">Pedro de Mendoza</a> and <a href="/wiki/Domingo_Mart%C3%ADnez_de_Irala" title="Domingo Martínez de Irala">Domingo Martínez de Irala</a>, who led the original expedition, went inland and founded <a href="/wiki/Asunci%C3%B3n,_Paraguay" class="mw-redirect" title="Asunción, Paraguay">Asunción, Paraguay</a>, which became the Spaniards' base. A second (and permanent) settlement was established in 1580 by <a href="/wiki/Juan_de_Garay" title="Juan de Garay">Juan de Garay</a>, who arrived by sailing down the <a href="/wiki/Paran%C3%A1_River" title="Paraná River">Paraná River</a> from <a href="/wiki/Asunci%C3%B3n" title="Asunción">Asunción</a>, now the capital of <a href="/wiki/Paraguay" title="Paraguay">Paraguay</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Exploration from Peru resulted in the foundation of <a href="/wiki/Tucum%C3%A1n" class="mw-redirect" title="Tucumán">Tucumán</a> in what is now northwest Argentina.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3></div> <p>Much of what is now the <a href="/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">Southern United States</a> was claimed by Spain, some of it at least explored by the Spanish starting in the early 1500s, and some permanent settlements established. Spanish explorers claimed land for the crown in the modern-day states of Alabama, Arizona, the <a href="/wiki/Carolinas" title="Carolinas">Carolinas</a>, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, and California.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> was also colonized by the Spanish during this era, occasioning the earliest contact between <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Africa" title="Demographics of Africa">Africans</a> and what would become the United States (via the free Black conquistador <a href="/wiki/Juan_Garrido" title="Juan Garrido">Juan Garrido</a>). Free and enslaved Africans were a feature of New Spain throughout the colonial period.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of the colonists who conquered Puerto Rico, <a href="/wiki/Juan_Ponce_de_Le%C3%B3n" title="Juan Ponce de León">Juan Ponce de León</a>, is commonly given credit for being the first European to sight Florida in 1513.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For political reasons, Spain would sometimes claim that <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Florida" title="Spanish Florida">La Florida</a><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was all of the North American continent. However, the name was typically used to refer to the peninsula itself as well as the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="Gulf Coast of the United States">Gulf Coast</a>, Georgia, Carolina, and southern <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1521, Ponce de Leon was killed while trying to establish a settlement near what is now <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Harbor,_Florida" title="Charlotte Harbor, Florida">Charlotte Harbor, Florida</a>. Another failed attempt was conducted by <a href="/wiki/Lucas_V%C3%A1zquez_de_Ayll%C3%B3n" title="Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón">Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón</a>, who set out with approximately 500 colonists and established the settlement of <a href="/wiki/San_Miguel_de_Gualdape" title="San Miguel de Gualdape">San Miguel de Gualdape</a> in modern-day South Carolina in 1526.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1559, <a href="/wiki/Trist%C3%A1n_de_Luna_y_Arellano" title="Tristán de Luna y Arellano">Tristán de Luna y Arellano</a> established the first multi-year European settlement in the United States in what is now <a href="/wiki/Pensacola,_Florida" title="Pensacola, Florida">Pensacola</a>, Florida. This settlement predates the foundation of St. Augustine by six years, marking an important yet often overlooked moment in the history of Spanish colonization. Archaeological evidence from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_West_Florida" title="University of West Florida">University of West Florida</a> has confirmed the presence of Luna's expedition, which included 1,500 people and lasted from 1559 to 1561. The artifacts discovered at the site provide a direct link to Spain's early efforts to colonize the northern Gulf Coast.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the fall of 1528, Spanish explorer <a href="/wiki/%C3%81lvar_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cabeza_de_Vaca" title="Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca">Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca</a> landed on present day <a href="/wiki/Follet%27s_Island" title="Follet's Island">Follet's Island, Texas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CVaca_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CVaca-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1565, Spain established a settlement in <a href="/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida" title="St. Augustine, Florida">St. Augustine, Florida</a>, lasting in one way or another until modern times. Permanent Spanish settlements were founded in <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a>, starting in 1598, with <a href="/wiki/Santa_Fe,_New_Mexico" title="Santa Fe, New Mexico">Santa Fe</a> founded in 1610. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="End_of_era_of_exploration">End of era of exploration</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cabeza_de_Vaca1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Cabeza_de_Vaca1.jpg/220px-Cabeza_de_Vaca1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="296" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Cabeza_de_Vaca1.jpg/330px-Cabeza_de_Vaca1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Cabeza_de_Vaca1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="371" data-file-height="499" /></a><figcaption>Bust of <a href="/wiki/%C3%81lvar_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cabeza_de_Vaca" title="Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca">Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca</a>, who wrote epic account of years of wandering in the North American south and southwest.</figcaption></figure> <p>The spectacular conquests of central Mexico (1519–1521) and Peru (1532) sparked Spaniards' hopes of finding yet another high civilization. Expeditions continued into the 1540s and regional capitals founded by the 1550s. Among the most notable expeditions are <a href="/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto" title="Hernando de Soto">Hernando de Soto</a> into southeast North America, leaving from Cuba (1539–1542); <a href="/wiki/Francisco_V%C3%A1zquez_de_Coronado" title="Francisco Vázquez de Coronado">Francisco Vázquez de Coronado</a> to northern Mexico (1540–1542), and <a href="/wiki/Gonzalo_Pizarro" title="Gonzalo Pizarro">Gonzalo Pizarro</a> to Amazonia, leaving from Quito, Ecuador (1541–1542).<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1561, <a href="/wiki/Pedro_de_Urs%C3%BAa" title="Pedro de Ursúa">Pedro de Ursúa</a> led an expedition of some 370 Spanish (including women and children) into Amazonia to search for El Dorado. Far more famous now is <a href="/wiki/Lope_de_Aguirre" title="Lope de Aguirre">Lope de Aguirre</a>, who led a mutiny against Ursúa, who was murdered. Aguirre subsequently wrote a letter to <a href="/wiki/Philip_II_of_Spain" title="Philip II of Spain">Philip II</a> bitterly complaining about the treatment of conquerors like himself in the wake of the assertion of crown control over Peru.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An earlier expedition that left in 1527 was led by <a href="/wiki/Narv%C3%A1ez_expedition" title="Narváez expedition">Pánfilo Naváez</a>, who was killed early on. Survivors continued to travel among indigenous groups in the North American south and southwest until 1536. <a href="/wiki/%C3%81lvar_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cabeza_de_Vaca" title="Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca">Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca</a> was one of four survivors of that expedition, writing an account of it.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The crown later sent him to <a href="/wiki/Asunci%C3%B3n" title="Asunción">Asunción</a>, Paraguay to be <a href="/wiki/Adelantado" title="Adelantado">adelantado</a> there. Expeditions continued to explore territories in hopes of finding another Aztec or Inca empire, with no further success. <a href="/wiki/Francisco_de_Ibarra" title="Francisco de Ibarra">Francisco de Ibarra</a> led an expedition from <a href="/wiki/Zacatecas" title="Zacatecas">Zacatecas</a> in northern New Spain, and founded <a href="/wiki/Durango" title="Durango">Durango</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Juan_de_O%C3%B1ate" title="Juan de Oñate">Juan de Oñate</a>, is sometimes referred to as "the Last <a href="/wiki/Conquistador" title="Conquistador">Conquistador</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> expanded Spanish sovereignty over what is now New Mexico.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like previous conquistadors, Oñate engaged in widespread abuses of the Indian population.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly after founding <a href="/wiki/Santa_Fe,_New_Mexico" title="Santa Fe, New Mexico">Santa Fe</a>, Oñate was recalled to Mexico City by the Spanish authorities. He was subsequently tried and convicted of cruelty to both natives and colonists and banished from New Mexico for life.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Factors_affecting_Spanish_settlement">Factors affecting Spanish settlement</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Capitulo-CIX.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Capitulo-CIX.jpg/220px-Capitulo-CIX.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Capitulo-CIX.jpg/330px-Capitulo-CIX.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Capitulo-CIX.jpg/440px-Capitulo-CIX.jpg 2x" data-file-width="862" data-file-height="650" /></a><figcaption>Cerro Rico del Potosi, the first image of silver mountain in Europe. <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Cieza_de_Le%C3%B3n" title="Pedro Cieza de León">Pedro Cieza de León</a>, 1553</figcaption></figure> <p>Two major factors affected the density of Spanish settlement in the long term. One was the presence or absence of dense, hierarchically organized indigenous populations that could be made to work. The other was the presence or absence of an exploitable resource for the enrichment of settlers. Best was gold, but silver was found in abundance. </p><p>The two main areas of Spanish settlement after 1550 were Mexico and Peru, the sites of the Aztec and Inca indigenous civilizations, and rich deposits of the valuable metal silver. Spanish settlement in Mexico "largely replicated the organization of the area in preconquest times". However, in Peru the center of the Incas was too far south, too remote, and at too high an altitude for the Spanish capital, so the capital <a href="/wiki/Lima" title="Lima">Lima</a> was built near the Pacific coast.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The capitals of both Mexico and Peru (Mexico City and Lima) came to have large concentrations of Spanish settlers and hubs of royal and ecclesiastical administration, large commercial enterprises with skilled artisans, and centers of culture. Although Spaniards had hoped to find vast quantities of gold, the discovery of large quantities of silver became the motor of the Spanish colonial economy, a major source of income for the Spanish crown, and transformed the international economy. Mining regions in Mexico were remote, outside the zone of indigenous settlement in central and southern Mexico <a href="/wiki/Mesoamerica" title="Mesoamerica">Mesoamerica</a>, but mines in <a href="/wiki/Zacatecas" title="Zacatecas">Zacatecas</a> (founded 1548) and <a href="/wiki/Guanajuato_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Guanajuato City">Guanajuato</a> (founded 1548) emerged as key hubs in the colonial economy. In Peru, silver was found in a single silver mountain, the <a href="/wiki/Cerro_Rico" title="Cerro Rico">Cerro Rico de Potosí</a>, which is still producing silver in the 21st century. Potosí (founded 1545) was in the zone of dense indigenous settlement, so that labor could be mobilized on traditional patterns to extract the ore. An important element for productive mining was mercury for processing high-grade ore. Peru had a source in <a href="/wiki/Huancavelica" title="Huancavelica">Huancavelica</a> (founded 1572), while Mexico had to rely on mercury imported from Spain. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Establishment_of_early_settlements">Establishment of early settlements</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Palacio_Nacional,_M%C3%A9xico_D.F.,_M%C3%A9xico,_2013-10-16,_DD_119.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Palacio_Nacional%2C_M%C3%A9xico_D.F.%2C_M%C3%A9xico%2C_2013-10-16%2C_DD_119.JPG/220px-Palacio_Nacional%2C_M%C3%A9xico_D.F.%2C_M%C3%A9xico%2C_2013-10-16%2C_DD_119.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Palacio_Nacional%2C_M%C3%A9xico_D.F.%2C_M%C3%A9xico%2C_2013-10-16%2C_DD_119.JPG/330px-Palacio_Nacional%2C_M%C3%A9xico_D.F.%2C_M%C3%A9xico%2C_2013-10-16%2C_DD_119.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Palacio_Nacional%2C_M%C3%A9xico_D.F.%2C_M%C3%A9xico%2C_2013-10-16%2C_DD_119.JPG/440px-Palacio_Nacional%2C_M%C3%A9xico_D.F.%2C_M%C3%A9xico%2C_2013-10-16%2C_DD_119.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4974" data-file-height="2425" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/National_Palace_(Mexico)" title="National Palace (Mexico)">National Palace</a>, Mexico City, built by Hernán Cortés in the Aztec central zone of palaces and temples.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Spanish founded towns in the Caribbean, on Hispaniola and Cuba, on a pattern that became spatially similar throughout Spanish America. A central plaza had the most important buildings on the four sides, especially buildings for royal officials and the main church. A checkerboard pattern radiated outward. Residences of the officials and elites were closest to the main square. Once on the mainland, where there were dense indigenous populations in urban settlements, the Spanish could build a Spanish settlement on the same site, dating its foundation to when that occurred. Often they erected a church on the site of an indigenous temple. They replicated the existing indigenous network of settlements, but added a port city. The Spanish network needed a port city so that inland settlements could be connected by sea to Spain. In Mexico, <a href="/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s" title="Hernán Cortés">Hernán Cortés</a> and the men of his expedition founded of the port town of <a href="/wiki/Veracruz_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Veracruz City">Veracruz</a> in 1519 and constituted themselves as the town councilors, as a means to throw off the authority of the governor of Cuba, who did not authorize an expedition of conquest. Once the Aztec Empire was toppled, they founded <a href="/wiki/Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a> on the ruins of the Aztec capital. Their central official and ceremonial area was built on top of Aztec palaces and temples. In Peru, Spaniards founded the city of <a href="/wiki/Lima" title="Lima">Lima</a> as their capital and its nearby port of <a href="/wiki/Callao" title="Callao">Callao</a>, rather than the high-altitude site of <a href="/wiki/Cuzco" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuzco">Cuzco</a>, the center of Inca rule. Spaniards established a network of settlements in areas they conquered and controlled. Important ones include <a href="/wiki/Santiago_de_Guatemala" class="mw-redirect" title="Santiago de Guatemala">Santiago de Guatemala</a> (1524); <a href="/wiki/Puebla_de_Los_Angeles" class="mw-redirect" title="Puebla de Los Angeles">Puebla</a> (1531); <a href="/wiki/Quer%C3%A9taro" title="Querétaro">Querétaro</a> (ca. 1531); <a href="/wiki/Guadalajara,_Mexico" class="mw-redirect" title="Guadalajara, Mexico">Guadalajara</a> (1531–42); Valladolid (now <a href="/wiki/Morelia" title="Morelia">Morelia</a>), (1529–41); Antequera (now <a href="/wiki/Oaxaca_City" title="Oaxaca City">Oaxaca</a>(1525–29); <a href="/wiki/Campeche" title="Campeche">Campeche</a> (1541); and <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9rida,_Yucatan" class="mw-redirect" title="Mérida, Yucatan">Mérida</a>. In southern Central and South America, settlements were founded in <a href="/wiki/Panama_City" title="Panama City">Panama</a> (1519); <a href="/wiki/Le%C3%B3n,_Nicaragua" title="León, Nicaragua">León, Nicaragua</a> (1524); <a href="/wiki/Cartagena_de_Indias" class="mw-redirect" title="Cartagena de Indias">Cartagena</a> (1532); <a href="/wiki/Piura" title="Piura">Piura</a> (1532); <a href="/wiki/Quito" title="Quito">Quito</a> (1534); <a href="/wiki/Trujillo,_Peru" title="Trujillo, Peru">Trujillo</a> (1535); <a href="/wiki/Cali" title="Cali">Cali</a> (1537) <a href="/wiki/Bogot%C3%A1" title="Bogotá">Bogotá</a> (1538); <a href="/wiki/Quito" title="Quito">Quito</a> (1534); <a href="/wiki/Cuzco" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuzco">Cuzco</a> 1534); <a href="/wiki/Lima" title="Lima">Lima</a> (1535); <a href="/wiki/Tunja" title="Tunja">Tunja</a>, (1539); <a href="/wiki/Huamanga" class="mw-redirect" title="Huamanga">Huamanga</a> (1539); <a href="/wiki/Arequipa" title="Arequipa">Arequipa</a> (1540); <a href="/wiki/Santiago_de_Chile" class="mw-redirect" title="Santiago de Chile">Santiago de Chile</a> (1544) and <a href="/wiki/Concepci%C3%B3n,_Chile" title="Concepción, Chile">Concepción, Chile</a> (1550). Settled from the south were <a href="/wiki/Buenos_Aires" title="Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</a> (1536, 1580); <a href="/wiki/Asunci%C3%B3n" title="Asunción">Asunción</a> (1537); <a href="/wiki/Potos%C3%AD" title="Potosí">Potosí</a> (1545); <a href="/wiki/La_Paz,_Bolivia" class="mw-redirect" title="La Paz, Bolivia">La Paz, Bolivia</a> (1548); and <a href="/wiki/Tucum%C3%A1n" class="mw-redirect" title="Tucumán">Tucumán</a> (1553).<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ecological_conquests_and_demographic_catastrophe">Ecological conquests and demographic catastrophe</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Columbian_exchange" title="Columbian exchange">Columbian exchange</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Columbian_Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbian Exchange">Columbian Exchange</a> was as significant as the clash of civilizations.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Arguably the most significant introduction was diseases brought to the Americas, which devastated indigenous populations in a series of epidemics. The loss of indigenous population had a direct impact on Spaniards as well, since increasingly they saw those populations as a source of their own wealth, disappearing before their eyes.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Johann_Moritz_Rugendas-el_rapto.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Johann_Moritz_Rugendas-el_rapto.jpg/220px-Johann_Moritz_Rugendas-el_rapto.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Johann_Moritz_Rugendas-el_rapto.jpg/330px-Johann_Moritz_Rugendas-el_rapto.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Johann_Moritz_Rugendas-el_rapto.jpg/440px-Johann_Moritz_Rugendas-el_rapto.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2739" /></a><figcaption>A mounted Mapuche carrying off a Spanish woman. <a href="/wiki/Johann_Moritz_Rugendas" title="Johann Moritz Rugendas">Johann Moritz Rugendas</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In the first settlements in the Caribbean, the Spaniards deliberately brought animals and plants that transformed the ecological landscape. Pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, and chickens allowed Spaniards to eat a diet with which they were familiar. But the importation of horses transformed warfare for both the Spaniards and the indigenous. Where the Spaniards had exclusive access to horses in warfare, they had an advantage over indigenous warriors on foot. They were initially a scarce commodity, but horse breeding became an active industry. Horses that escaped Spanish control were captured by indigenous; many indigenous also raided for horses. Mounted indigenous warriors were significant foes for Spaniards. The Chichimeca in northern Mexico, the Comanche in the northern Great Plains and the <a href="/wiki/Mapuche" title="Mapuche">Mapuche</a> in southern Chile and the pampas of Argentina resisted Spanish conquest. For Spaniards, the fierce Chichimecas barred them for exploiting mining resources in northern Mexico. Spaniards waged a fifty-year <a href="/wiki/Chichimeca_War" title="Chichimeca War">war</a> (ca. 1550–1600) to subdue them, but peace was only achieved by Spaniards' making significant donations of food and other commodities the Chichimeca demanded. "Peace by purchase" ended the conflict.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In southern Chile and the pampas, the <a href="/wiki/Araucanians" class="mw-redirect" title="Araucanians">Araucanians</a> (Mapuche) prevented further Spanish expansion. The image of mounted Araucanians capturing and carrying off white women was the embodiment of Spanish ideas of civilization and barbarism. </p><p>Cattle multiplied quickly in areas where little else could turn a profit for Spaniards, including northern Mexico and the Argentine pampas. The introduction of sheep production was an ecological disaster in places where they were raised in great numbers, since they ate vegetation to the ground, preventing the regeneration of plants.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Spanish brought new crops for cultivation. (See <a href="/wiki/Mission_Garden" title="Mission Garden">Mission Garden</a> for specific foods.) They preferred wheat cultivation to indigenous sources of carbohydrates: casava, maize (corn), and potatoes, initially importing seeds from Europe and planting in areas where plow agriculture could be utilized, such as the Mexican <a href="/wiki/Baj%C3%ADo" title="Bajío">Bajío</a>. They also imported cane sugar, which was a high-value crop in early Spanish America. Spaniards also imported citrus trees, establishing orchards of oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruit. Other imports were figs, apricots, cherries, pears, and peaches among others. The exchange did not go one way. Important indigenous crops that transformed Europe were the potato and <a href="/wiki/Maize" title="Maize">maize</a>, which produced abundant crops that led to the expansion of populations in Europe. Chocolate and vanilla were cultivated in Mexico and exported to Europe. Among the foodstuffs that became staples in European cuisine and could be grown there were tomatoes, squashes, bell peppers, <a href="/wiki/Cashew" title="Cashew">cashews</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pecans" class="mw-redirect" title="Pecans">pecans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peanut" title="Peanut">peanuts</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Civil_governance">Civil governance</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish Empire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Viceroyalty of New Spain">Viceroyalty of New Spain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_Peru" title="Viceroyalty of Peru">Viceroyalty of Peru</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Intendant#The_Spanish_Monarchy" title="Intendant">Intendant § The Spanish Monarchy</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:America_noviter_delineata.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/America_noviter_delineata.jpg/220px-America_noviter_delineata.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/America_noviter_delineata.jpg/330px-America_noviter_delineata.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/America_noviter_delineata.jpg/440px-America_noviter_delineata.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5965" data-file-height="4528" /></a><figcaption>17th c. Dutch map of the Americas</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Universidades_fundadas_por_Espa%C3%B1a_en_Am%C3%A9rica_y_Filipinas.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Universidades_fundadas_por_Espa%C3%B1a_en_Am%C3%A9rica_y_Filipinas.png/260px-Universidades_fundadas_por_Espa%C3%B1a_en_Am%C3%A9rica_y_Filipinas.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Universidades_fundadas_por_Espa%C3%B1a_en_Am%C3%A9rica_y_Filipinas.png/390px-Universidades_fundadas_por_Espa%C3%B1a_en_Am%C3%A9rica_y_Filipinas.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Universidades_fundadas_por_Espa%C3%B1a_en_Am%C3%A9rica_y_Filipinas.png/520px-Universidades_fundadas_por_Espa%C3%B1a_en_Am%C3%A9rica_y_Filipinas.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>Universities founded in Spanish America by the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish Empire</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The empire in the Indies was a newly established dependency of the kingdom of Castile alone, so crown power was not impeded by any existing <a href="/wiki/Cortes_Generales" title="Cortes Generales">cortes</a> (i.e. parliament), administrative or ecclesiastical institution, or seigneurial group.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The crown sought to establish and maintain control over its overseas possessions through a complex, hierarchical bureaucracy, which in many ways was decentralized. The crown asserted is authority and sovereignty of the territory and vassals it claimed, collected taxes, maintained public order, meted out justice, and established policies for governance of large indigenous populations. Many institutions established in Castile found expression in The Indies from the early colonial period. Spanish universities expanded to train lawyer-bureaucrats (<i>letrados</i>) for administrative positions in Spain and its overseas empire. </p><p>The end of the Habsburg dynasty in 1700 saw major <a href="/wiki/Bourbon_Reforms" title="Bourbon Reforms">administrative reforms</a> in the eighteenth century under the Bourbon monarchy, starting with the first Spanish Bourbon monarch, <a href="/wiki/Philip_V_of_Spain" title="Philip V of Spain">Philip V</a> (r. 1700–1746) and reaching its apogee under <a href="/wiki/Charles_III_of_Spain" title="Charles III of Spain">Charles III</a> (r. 1759–1788). The reorganization of administration has been called "a revolution in government."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrading197133–94_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrading197133–94-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reforms sought to centralize government control through reorganization of administration, reinvigorate the economies of Spain and the Spanish empire through changes in mercantile and fiscal policies, defend Spanish colonies and territorial claims through the establishment of a standing military, undermine the power of the Catholic church, and rein in the power of the American-born elites.<sup id="cite_ref-Bourbon_Reforms_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bourbon_Reforms-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_institutions_of_governance">Early institutions of governance</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nicol%C3%A1s_de_Ovando_y_C%C3%A1ceres.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Nicol%C3%A1s_de_Ovando_y_C%C3%A1ceres.jpg/220px-Nicol%C3%A1s_de_Ovando_y_C%C3%A1ceres.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="277" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Nicol%C3%A1s_de_Ovando_y_C%C3%A1ceres.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="319" data-file-height="401" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_de_Ovando" title="Nicolás de Ovando">Nicolás de Ovando</a>, sent by the crown to assert royal control</figcaption></figure> <p>The crown relied on ecclesiastics as important councilors and royal officials in the governance of their overseas territories. Archbishop <a href="/wiki/Juan_Rodr%C3%ADguez_de_Fonseca" title="Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca">Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca</a>, Isabella's confessor, was tasked with reining in Columbus's independence. He strongly influenced the formulation of colonial policy under the Catholic Monarchs, and was instrumental in establishing the <i><a href="/wiki/Casa_de_Contrataci%C3%B3n" title="Casa de Contratación">Casa de Contratación</a></i> (House of Trade) (1503), which enabled crown control over trade and immigration. Ovando fitted out Magellan's voyage of circumnavigation, and became the first President of the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_the_Indies" title="Council of the Indies">Council of the Indies</a> in 1524.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ecclesiastics also functioned as administrators overseas in the early Caribbean period, particularly Frey <a href="/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_de_Ovando" title="Nicolás de Ovando">Nicolás de Ovando</a>, who was sent to investigate the administration of <a href="/wiki/Francisco_de_Bobadilla" title="Francisco de Bobadilla">Francisco de Bobadilla</a>, the governor appointed to succeed Christopher Columbus.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later ecclesiastics served as interim viceroys, general inspectors (visitadores), and other high posts. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="House_of_Trade">House of Trade</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Casa_de_Contrataci%C3%B3n" title="Casa de Contratación">Casa de Contratación</a></div> <p>The crown established control over trade and emigration to the Indies with the 1503 establishment the <i><a href="/wiki/Casa_de_Contrataci%C3%B3n" title="Casa de Contratación">Casa de Contratación</a></i> (House of Trade) in Seville. Ships and cargoes were registered, and emigrants vetted to prevent migration of anyone not of <a href="/wiki/Old_Christian" title="Old Christian">Old Christian</a> heritage, (i.e., with no Jewish or Muslim ancestry), and facilitated the migration of families and women.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, the <i>Casa de Contratación</i> took charge of the fiscal organization, and of the organization and judicial control of the trade with the Indies.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Assertion_of_royal_control_in_the_early_Caribbean">Assertion of royal control in the early Caribbean</h4></div> <p>The politics of asserting royal authority to oppose Columbus resulted in the suppression of his privileges and the creation of territorial governance under royal authority. These governorates, also called as provinces, were the basic of the territorial government of the Indies,<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and arose as the territories were conquered and colonized.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGóngora199899_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGóngora199899-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To carry out the expedition (<i>entrada</i>), which entailed exploration, conquest, and initial settlement of the territory, the king, as sovereign, and the appointed leader of an expedition (<i><a href="/wiki/Adelantado" title="Adelantado">adelantado</a></i>) agreed to an itemized contract (<i>capitulación</i>), with the specifics of the conditions of the expedition in a particular territory. The individual leaders of expeditions assumed the expenses of the venture and in return received as reward the grant from the government of the conquered territories;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELagos_Carmona1985119_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELagos_Carmona1985119-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in addition, they received instructions about treating the indigenous peoples.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELagos_Carmona1985122_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELagos_Carmona1985122-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the end of the period of conquests, it was necessary to manage extensive and different territories with a strong bureaucracy. In the face of the impossibility of the Castilian institutions to take care of the New World affairs, other new institutions were created.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHistoria_general_de_España1992601_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHistoria_general_de_España1992601-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the basic political entity it was the governorate, or province. The governors exercised judicial ordinary functions of first instance, and prerogatives of government legislating by ordinances.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGóngora199897_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGóngora199897-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To these political functions of the governor, it could be joined the military ones, according to military requirements, with the rank of <a href="/wiki/Captain_general" title="Captain general">Captain general</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The office of captain general involved to be the supreme military chief of the whole territory and he was responsible for recruiting and providing troops, the fortification of the territory, the supply and the shipbuilding.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Beginning in 1522 in the newly conquered Mexico, government units in the Spanish empire had a royal treasury controlled by a set of <i>oficiales reales</i> (royal officials). There were also sub-treasuries at important ports and mining districts. The officials of the royal treasury at each level of government typically included two to four positions: a <i>tesorero</i> (treasurer), the senior official who guarded money on hand and made payments; a <i>contador</i> (accountant or <a href="/wiki/Comptroller" title="Comptroller">comptroller</a>), who recorded income and payments, maintained records, and interpreted royal instructions; a <i>factor</i>, who guarded weapons and supplies belonging to the king, and disposed of tribute collected in the province; and a <i>veedor</i> (overseer), who was responsible for contacts with native inhabitants of the province, and collected the king's share of any war booty. The <i>veedor</i>, or overseer, position quickly disappeared in most jurisdictions, subsumed into the position of <i>factor</i>. Depending on the conditions in a jurisdiction, the position of <i>factor/veedor</i> was often eliminated, as well.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The treasury officials were appointed by the king, and were largely independent of the authority of the viceroy, audiencia president or governor. On the death, unauthorized absence, retirement or removal of a governor, the treasury officials would jointly govern the province until a new governor appointed by the king could take up his duties. Treasury officials were supposed to be paid out of the income from the province, and were normally prohibited from engaging in income-producing activities.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBushnell19811–2Chipman2005_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBushnell19811–2Chipman2005-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spanish_law_and_indigenous_peoples">Spanish law and indigenous peoples</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fray_Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Fray_Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas.jpg/170px-Fray_Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Fray_Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas.jpg/255px-Fray_Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Fray_Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas.jpg/340px-Fray_Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="1733" /></a><figcaption>Fray <a href="/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_Las_Casas" class="mw-redirect" title="Bartolomé de Las Casas">Bartolomé de Las Casas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Protector_of_the_Indians" title="Protector of the Indians">Protector of the Indians</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The protection of the indigenous populations from enslavement and exploitation by Spanish settlers were established in the <a href="/wiki/Laws_of_Burgos" title="Laws of Burgos">Laws of Burgos</a>, 1512–1513. The laws were the first codified set of laws governing the behavior of Spanish <a href="/wiki/Settlers" class="mw-redirect" title="Settlers">settlers</a> in the Americas, particularly with regards to treatment of native Indians in the institution of the <i><a href="/wiki/Encomienda" title="Encomienda">encomienda</a></i>. They forbade the maltreatment of natives, and endorsed the <a href="/wiki/Reductions" title="Reductions">forced resettlement of indigenous populations</a> with attempts of <a href="/wiki/Proselytize" class="mw-redirect" title="Proselytize">conversion</a> to Catholicism.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon their failure to effectively protect the indigenous and following the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_Empire" title="Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire">Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Peru" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish conquest of Peru">Spanish conquest of Peru</a>, more stringent laws to control conquerors' and settlers' exercise of power, especially their maltreatment of the indigenous populations, were promulgated, known as the <a href="/wiki/New_Laws" title="New Laws">New Laws</a> (1542). The crown aimed to prevent the formation of an aristocracy in the Indies not under crown control. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile" title="Isabella I of Castile">Queen Isabel</a> was the first monarch that laid the first stone for the protection of the indigenous peoples in her testament in which the Catholic monarch prohibited the enslavement of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Then the first such in 1542; the legal thought behind them was the basis of modern <a href="/wiki/Francisco_de_Vitoria" title="Francisco de Vitoria">International law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Valladolid_debate" title="Valladolid debate">Valladolid debate</a> (1550–1551) was the first moral debate in European history to discuss the rights and treatment of a <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_people_of_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Indigenous people of the Americas">colonized people</a> by colonizers. Held in the <a href="/wiki/Colegio_de_San_Gregorio" title="Colegio de San Gregorio">Colegio de San Gregorio</a>, in the Spanish city of <a href="/wiki/Valladolid" title="Valladolid">Valladolid</a>, it was a moral and theological debate about the <a href="/wiki/European_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="European colonization of the Americas">colonization of the Americas</a>, its justification for the conversion to <a href="/wiki/Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholicism">Catholicism</a> and more specifically about the relations between the European settlers and the natives of the <a href="/wiki/New_World" title="New World">New World</a>. It consisted of a number of opposing views about the way natives were to be integrated into colonial life, their conversion to Christianity and their rights and obligations. According to the French historian Jean Dumont The <i>Valladolid debate</i> was a major turning point in world history "In that moment in Spain appeared the dawn of the human rights".<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nu%C3%B1ez_Vela1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Nu%C3%B1ez_Vela1.jpg/220px-Nu%C3%B1ez_Vela1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Nu%C3%B1ez_Vela1.jpg/330px-Nu%C3%B1ez_Vela1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Nu%C3%B1ez_Vela1.jpg/440px-Nu%C3%B1ez_Vela1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="810" data-file-height="1082" /></a><figcaption>First viceroy of Peru, <a href="/wiki/Blasco_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Vela" title="Blasco Núñez Vela">Blasco Núñez Vela</a>, overthrown by Spaniards for implementing the New Laws</figcaption></figure> <p>The indigenous populations in the Caribbean became the focus of the crown in its roles as sovereigns of the empire and patron of the Catholic Church. Spanish conquerors holding grants of indigenous labor in <a href="/wiki/Encomienda" title="Encomienda">encomienda</a> ruthlessly exploited them. A number of friars in the early period came to the vigorous defense of the indigenous populations, who were new converts to Christianity. Prominent <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Order" title="Dominican Order">Dominican</a> friars in Santo Domingo, especially <a href="/wiki/Antonio_de_Montesinos" title="Antonio de Montesinos">Antonio de Montesinos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas" title="Bartolomé de las Casas">Bartolomé de las Casas</a> denounced the maltreatment and pressed the crown to act to protect the indigenous populations. The crown enacted <a href="/wiki/Laws_of_Burgos" title="Laws of Burgos">Laws of Burgos</a> (1513) and the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Requirement_of_1513" title="Spanish Requirement of 1513">Requerimiento</a> to curb the power of the Spanish conquerors and give indigenous populations the opportunity to peacefully embrace Spanish authority and Christianity. Neither was effective in its purpose. Las Casas was officially appointed <a href="/wiki/Protector_of_the_Indians" title="Protector of the Indians">Protector of the Indians</a> and spent his life arguing forcefully on their behalf. The <a href="/wiki/New_Laws" title="New Laws">New Laws</a> of 1542 were the result, limiting the power of encomenderos, the private holders of grants to indigenous labor previously held in perpetuity. The crown was open to limiting the inheritance of encomiendas in perpetuity as a way to extinguish the coalescence of a group of Spaniards impinging on royal power. In Peru, the attempt of the newly appointed viceroy, <a href="/wiki/Blasco_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Vela" title="Blasco Núñez Vela">Blasco Núñez Vela</a>, to implement the New Laws so soon after the conquest sparked a revolt by conquerors against the viceroy and the viceroy was killed in 1546.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Mexico, <a href="/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Cort%C3%A9s,_2nd_Marquess_of_the_Valley_of_Oaxaca" title="Martín Cortés, 2nd Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca">Don Martín Cortés</a>, the son and legal heir of conqueror <a href="/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s" title="Hernán Cortés">Hernán Cortés</a>, and other heirs of encomiendas led a failed revolt against the crown. Don Martín was sent into exile, while other conspirators were executed.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Indigenous_peoples_and_colonial_rule">Indigenous peoples and colonial rule</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">Indigenous peoples of the Americas</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Emperadores_del_Peru_Parte2_-_AHG.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Emperadores_del_Peru_Parte2_-_AHG.jpg/170px-Emperadores_del_Peru_Parte2_-_AHG.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Emperadores_del_Peru_Parte2_-_AHG.jpg/255px-Emperadores_del_Peru_Parte2_-_AHG.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Emperadores_del_Peru_Parte2_-_AHG.jpg/340px-Emperadores_del_Peru_Parte2_-_AHG.jpg 2x" data-file-width="10066" data-file-height="14220" /></a><figcaption>Detail of a gallery of portraits of sovereigns in Peru, showing continuity from Inca emperors to Spanish monarchs. Published in 1744 by <a href="/wiki/Jorge_Juan_y_Santacilia" title="Jorge Juan y Santacilia">Jorge Juan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Antonio_de_Ulloa" title="Antonio de Ulloa">Antonio de Ulloa</a> in <i>Relación del Viaje a la América Meridional</i></figcaption></figure> <p>The conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires ended their sovereignty over their respective territorial expanses, replaced by the Spanish Empire, and indigenous religious beliefs and practices were suppressed and populations converted to Christianity. The Spanish Empire could not have ruled these vast territories and dense indigenous populations without utilizing the existing indigenous political and economic structures at the local level. A key to this was the cooperation between most indigenous elites with the new ruling structure. The Spanish recognized indigenous elites as nobles and gave them continuing standing in their communities. Indigenous elites could use the noble titles <i>don</i> and <i>doña</i>, were exempt from the head-tax, and could entail their landholdings into <i>cacicazgos</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These elites played an intermediary role between the Spanish rulers and indigenous commoners. Since in <a href="/wiki/Mesoamerica" title="Mesoamerica">Mesoamerica</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Andean_civilizations" title="Andean civilizations">Andean civilizations</a>, indigenous peoples had existing traditions of payment of tribute and required labor service, the Spanish could tap into these systems to extract wealth. There were few Spaniards and huge indigenous populations, so utilizing indigenous intermediaries was a practical solution to the incorporation of the indigenous population into the new regime of rule. By maintaining hierarchical divisions within communities, indigenous noblemen were the direct interface between the indigenous and Spanish spheres and kept their positions so long as they continued to be loyal to the Spanish crown.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The exploitation and demographic catastrophe that indigenous peoples experienced from Spanish rule in the Caribbean also occurred as Spaniards expanded their control over territories and their indigenous populations. The crown set the indigenous communities legally apart from Spaniards (as well as Blacks), who made up the <i>República de Españoles</i>, with the creation of the <i>República de Indios</i>. The crown attempted to curb Spaniards' exploitation, banning Spaniards' bequeathing their private grants of indigenous communities' tribute and encomienda labor in 1542 in the <a href="/wiki/New_Laws" title="New Laws">New Laws</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Mexico, the crown established the <a href="/wiki/General_Indian_Court_(Mexico)" class="mw-redirect" title="General Indian Court (Mexico)">General Indian Court</a> (<i>Juzgado General de Indios</i>), which heard disputes affecting individual indigenous as well as indigenous communities. Lawyers for these cases were funded by a half-real tax, an early example of legal aid for the poor.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A similar legal apparatus was set up in Lima.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ayuntamiento_de_Tlaxcala_-_panoramio_(1).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ayuntamiento_de_Tlaxcala_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg/220px-Ayuntamiento_de_Tlaxcala_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ayuntamiento_de_Tlaxcala_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg/330px-Ayuntamiento_de_Tlaxcala_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ayuntamiento_de_Tlaxcala_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg/440px-Ayuntamiento_de_Tlaxcala_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Cabildo building of Tlaxcala, Mexico</figcaption></figure> <p>The Spaniards systematically attempted to transform structures of indigenous governance to those more closely resembling those of Spaniards, so the indigenous city-state became a Spanish town and the indigenous noblemen who ruled became officeholders of the town council (cabildo). Although the structure of the indigenous cabildo looked similar to that of the Spanish institution, its indigenous functionaries continued to follow indigenous practices. In central Mexico, there exist minutes of the sixteenth-century meetings in <a href="/wiki/Nahuatl" title="Nahuatl">Nahuatl</a> of the Tlaxcala cabildo.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Indigenous noblemen were particularly important in the early period of colonization, since the economy of the encomienda was initially built on the extraction of tribute and labor from the commoners in their communities. As the colonial economy became more diversified and less dependent on these mechanisms for the accumulation of wealth, the indigenous noblemen became less important for the economy. However, noblemen became defenders of the rights to land and water controlled by their communities. In colonial Mexico, there are petitions to the king about a variety of issues important to particular indigenous communities when the noblemen did not get a favorable response from the local friar or priest or local royal officials. </p><p>Works by historians in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have expanded the understanding of the impact of the Spanish conquest and changes during the more than three hundred years of Spanish rule. There are many such works for Mexico, often drawing on native-language documentation in Nahuatl,<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mixtec,<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Yucatec Maya.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the Andean area, there are an increasing number of publications as well.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The history of the <a href="/wiki/Guaran%C3%AD_people" title="Guaraní people">Guaraní</a> has also been the subject of a recent study.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000, <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> apologized for the wrongs done by the Catholic Church, including those to indigenous peoples.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes.com_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes.com-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2007 <a href="/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI" title="Pope Benedict XVI">Pope Benedict XVI</a> issued a less sweeping apology for the wrongs done in the conversion of indigenous peoples.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Council_of_the_Indies">Council of the Indies</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Council_of_the_Indies" title="Council of the Indies">Council of the Indies</a></div> <p>In 1524 the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_the_Indies" title="Council of the Indies">Council of the Indies</a> was established, following the system of <a href="/wiki/Polysynodial_System" title="Polysynodial System">system of Councils</a> that advised the monarch and made decisions on his behalf about specific matters of government.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Based in Castile, with the assignment of the governance of the Indies, it was thus responsible for drafting legislation, proposing the appointments to the King for civil government as well as ecclesiastical appointments, and pronouncing judicial sentences; as maximum authority in the overseas territories, the Council of the Indies took over both the institutions in the Indies as the defense of the interests of the Crown, the Catholic Church, and of indigenous peoples.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the 1508 papal grant to the crown of the Patronato real, the crown, rather than the pope, exercised absolute power over the Catholic Church in the Americas and the Philippines, a privilege the crown zealously guarded against erosion or incursion. Crown approval through the Council of the Indies was needed for the establishment of bishoprics, building of churches, appointment of all clerics.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMecham1966111–137_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMecham1966111–137-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1721, at the beginning of the Bourbon monarchy, the crown transferred the main responsibility for governing the overseas empire from the Council of the Indies to the Ministry of the Navy and the Indies, which were subsequently divided into two separate ministries in 1754.<sup id="cite_ref-Bourbon_Reforms_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bourbon_Reforms-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Viceroyalties">Viceroyalties</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Viceroyalty of New Spain">Viceroyalty of New Spain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_Peru" title="Viceroyalty of Peru">Viceroyalty of Peru</a>, <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Granada" title="Viceroyalty of New Granada">Viceroyalty of New Granada</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_Rio_de_la_Plata" class="mw-redirect" title="Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata">Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vista_de_la_Plaza_Mayor_de_la_Ciudad_de_M%C3%A9xico_-_Cristobal_de_Villalpando.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Vista_de_la_Plaza_Mayor_de_la_Ciudad_de_M%C3%A9xico_-_Cristobal_de_Villalpando.jpg/220px-Vista_de_la_Plaza_Mayor_de_la_Ciudad_de_M%C3%A9xico_-_Cristobal_de_Villalpando.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Vista_de_la_Plaza_Mayor_de_la_Ciudad_de_M%C3%A9xico_-_Cristobal_de_Villalpando.jpg/330px-Vista_de_la_Plaza_Mayor_de_la_Ciudad_de_M%C3%A9xico_-_Cristobal_de_Villalpando.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Vista_de_la_Plaza_Mayor_de_la_Ciudad_de_M%C3%A9xico_-_Cristobal_de_Villalpando.jpg/440px-Vista_de_la_Plaza_Mayor_de_la_Ciudad_de_M%C3%A9xico_-_Cristobal_de_Villalpando.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1963" /></a><figcaption>View of the Plaza Mayor of Mexico City and the viceroy's palace, by <a href="/wiki/Crist%C3%B3bal_de_Villalpando" title="Cristóbal de Villalpando">Cristóbal de Villalpando</a>, 1695</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Plaza_Mayor_de_Lima.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Plaza_Mayor_de_Lima.jpg/220px-Plaza_Mayor_de_Lima.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Plaza_Mayor_de_Lima.jpg/330px-Plaza_Mayor_de_Lima.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Plaza_Mayor_de_Lima.jpg/440px-Plaza_Mayor_de_Lima.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3576" data-file-height="2248" /></a><figcaption>View of the Plaza Mayor, Lima, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1680</span></figcaption></figure> <p>The impossibility of the physical presence of the monarch and the necessity of strong royal governance in The Indies resulted in the appointment of <a href="/wiki/Viceroy" title="Viceroy">viceroys</a> ("vice-kings"), the direct representation of the monarch, in both civil and ecclesiastical spheres. Viceroyalties were the largest territory unit of administration in the civil and religious spheres and the boundaries of civil and ecclesiastical governance coincided by design, to ensure crown control over both bureaucracies.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMecham196626_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMecham196626-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Until the eighteenth century, there were just two viceroyalties, with the Viceroyalty of New Spain (founded 1535) administering North America, a portion of the Caribbean, and the Philippines, and the viceroyalty of Peru (founded 1542) having jurisdiction over Spanish South America. Viceroys served as the vice-patron of the Catholic Church, including the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Office_of_the_Inquisition" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy Office of the Inquisition">Inquisition</a>, established in the seats of the viceroyalties (Mexico City and Lima). Viceroys were responsible for good governance of their territories, economic development, and humane treatment of the indigenous populations.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the eighteenth-century reforms, the Viceroyalty of Peru was reorganized, splitting off portions to form the Viceroyalty of New Granada (Colombia) (1739) and the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata (Argentina) (1776), leaving Peru with jurisdiction over Peru, Charcas, and Chile. Viceroys were of high social standing, almost without exception born in Spain, and served fixed terms. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Audiencias,_the_high_courts"><span id="Audiencias.2C_the_high_courts"></span>Audiencias, the high courts</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Real_Audiencia" title="Real Audiencia">Real Audiencia</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:POMA0488.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/POMA0488.jpg/170px-POMA0488.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/POMA0488.jpg/255px-POMA0488.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/POMA0488.jpg/340px-POMA0488.jpg 2x" data-file-width="830" data-file-height="1204" /></a><figcaption>Members of the <i>Real Audiencia</i> (Royal Audience) of Lima, the <i>presidente</i>, <i>alcaldes de corte</i>, <i>fiscal</i> and <i>alguacil mayor</i>. (<a href="/wiki/Nueva_Cr%C3%B3nica_y_Buen_Gobierno" class="mw-redirect" title="Nueva Crónica y Buen Gobierno">Nueva Crónica y Buen Gobierno</a>, p. 488)</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Audiencias" class="mw-redirect" title="Audiencias">Audiencias</a> were initially constituted by the crown as a key administrative institution with royal authority and loyalty to the crown as opposed to conquerors and first settlers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGóngora1998100_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGóngora1998100-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although constituted as the highest judicial authority in their territorial jurisdiction, they also had executive and legislative authority, and served as the executive on an interim basis. Judges (<i>oidores</i>) held "formidable power. Their role in judicial affairs and in overseeing the implementation of royal legislation made their decisions important for the communities they served." Since their appointments were for life or the pleasure of the monarch, they had a continuity of power and authority that viceroys and captains-general lacked because of their shorter-term appointments.<sup id="cite_ref-burkholder_audencia_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-burkholder_audencia-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were the "center of the administrative system [and] gave the government of the Indies a strong basis of permanence and continuity."<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Their main function was judicial, as a court of justice of second instance – court of appeal – in penal and civil matters, but also the Audiencias were courts the first instance in the city where it had its headquarters, and also in the cases involving the Royal Treasury.<sup id="cite_ref-virrey_119-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-virrey-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Besides court of justice, the Audiencias had functions of government as counterweight the authority of the viceroys, since they could communicate with both the Council of the Indies and the king without the requirement of requesting authorization from the viceroy.<sup id="cite_ref-virrey_119-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-virrey-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This direct correspondence of the Audiencia with the Council of the Indies made it possible for the council to give the Audiencia direction on general aspects of government.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGóngora1998100_116-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGóngora1998100-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Audiencias were a significant base of power and influence for American-born elites, starting in the late sixteenth century, with nearly a quarter of appointees being born in the Indies by 1687. During a financial crisis in the late seventeenth century, the crown began selling Audiencia appointments, and American-born Spaniards held 45% of Audiencia appointments. Although there were restrictions of appointees' ties to local elite society and participation in the local economy, they acquired dispensations from the cash-strapped crown. Audiencia judgments and other functions became more tied to the locality and less to the crown and impartial justice. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Bourbon_Reforms" title="Bourbon Reforms">Bourbon Reforms</a> in the mid-eighteenth century, the crown systematically sought to centralize power in its own hands and diminish that of its overseas possessions, appointing peninsular-born Spaniards to Audiencias. American-born elite men complained bitterly about the change, since they lost access to power that they had enjoyed for nearly a century.<sup id="cite_ref-burkholder_audencia_117-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-burkholder_audencia-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Civil_administrative_districts,_provinces"><span id="Civil_administrative_districts.2C_provinces"></span>Civil administrative districts, provinces</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Corregidor_(position)" title="Corregidor (position)">Corregidor (position)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mapa_de_la_Am%C3%A9rica_espa%C3%B1ola_(1800).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Mapa_de_la_Am%C3%A9rica_espa%C3%B1ola_%281800%29.png/220px-Mapa_de_la_Am%C3%A9rica_espa%C3%B1ola_%281800%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Mapa_de_la_Am%C3%A9rica_espa%C3%B1ola_%281800%29.png/330px-Mapa_de_la_Am%C3%A9rica_espa%C3%B1ola_%281800%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Mapa_de_la_Am%C3%A9rica_espa%C3%B1ola_%281800%29.png/440px-Mapa_de_la_Am%C3%A9rica_espa%C3%B1ola_%281800%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1365" data-file-height="1761" /></a><figcaption>Map of Spanish America <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1800</span>, showing the 4 viceroyalties (New Spain, pink), (New Granada, green), (Peru, orange), (Río de la Plata, blue) and provincial divisions</figcaption></figure> <p>During the early era and under the Habsburgs, the crown established a regional layer of colonial jurisdiction in the institution of <a href="/wiki/Corregimiento" title="Corregimiento">Corregimiento</a>, which was between the <a href="/wiki/Audiencia_Real" class="mw-redirect" title="Audiencia Real">Audiencia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cabildo_(council)" title="Cabildo (council)">town councils</a>. Corregimiento expanded "royal authority from the urban centers into the countryside and over the indigenous population."<sup id="cite_ref-Corregidor_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Corregidor-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As with many colonial institutions, corregimiento had its roots in Castile when the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Monarchs" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic Monarchs">Catholic Monarchs</a> centralize power over municipalities. In the Indies, corregimiento initially functioned to bring control over Spanish settlers who exploited the indigenous populations held in <a href="/wiki/Encomienda" title="Encomienda">encomienda</a>, in order to protect the shrinking indigenous populations and prevent the formation of an aristocracy of conquerors and powerful settlers. The royal official in charge of a district was the <a href="/wiki/Corregidor_(position)" title="Corregidor (position)">Corregidor</a>, who was appointed by the viceroy, usually for a five-year term. Corregidores collected the tribute from indigenous communities and regulated forced indigenous labor. <a href="/wiki/Alcald%C3%ADa_mayor" title="Alcaldía mayor">Alcaldías mayores</a> were larger districts with a royal appointee, the <i>Alcalde mayor</i>. </p><p>As the indigenous populations declined, the need for corregimiento decreased and then suppressed, with the alcaldía mayor remaining an institution until it was replaced in the eighteenth-century <a href="/wiki/Bourbon_Reforms" title="Bourbon Reforms">Bourbon Reforms</a> by royal officials, <a href="/wiki/Intendant" title="Intendant">Intendants</a>. The salary of officials during the Habsburg era were paltry, but the corregidor or alcalde mayor in densely populated areas of indigenous settlement with a valuable product could use his office for personal enrichment. As with many other royal posts, these positions were sold, starting in 1677.<sup id="cite_ref-Corregidor_120-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Corregidor-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Bourbon-era intendants were appointed and relatively well paid.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cabildos_or_town_councils">Cabildos or town councils</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cabildo_(council)" title="Cabildo (council)">Cabildo (council)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Salta-Cabildo1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Salta-Cabildo1.jpg/220px-Salta-Cabildo1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Salta-Cabildo1.jpg/330px-Salta-Cabildo1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Salta-Cabildo1.jpg/440px-Salta-Cabildo1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a><figcaption>Cabildo in the city of <a href="/wiki/Salta" title="Salta">Salta</a> (Argentina)</figcaption></figure> <p>Spanish settlers sought to live in towns and cities, with governance being accomplished through the town council or <i>Cabildo</i>. The cabildo was composed of the prominent residents (<i>vecinos</i>) of the municipality, so that governance was restricted to a male elite, with majority of the population exercising power. Cities were governed on the same pattern as in Spain and in the Indies the city was the framework of Spanish life. The cities were Spanish and the countryside indigenous.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELockhartSchwartz198366–67_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELockhartSchwartz198366–67-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In areas of previous indigenous empires with settled populations, the crown also melded existing indigenous rule into a Spanish pattern, with the establishment of cabildos and the participation of indigenous elites as officials holding Spanish titles. There were a variable number of councilors (<i>regidores</i>), depending on the size of the town, also two municipal judges (<i>alcaldes menores</i>), who were judges of first instance, and also other officials as police chief, inspector of supplies, court clerk, and a public herald.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBennassar200198_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBennassar200198-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were in charge of distributing land to the neighbors, establishing local taxes, dealing with the public order, inspecting jails and hospitals, preserving the roads and public works such as irrigation ditches and bridges, supervising public health, regulating festive activities, monitoring market prices, or the protection of Indians.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the reign of Philip II, the municipal offices, including the councilors, were auctioned to alleviate the need for money of the Crown, even the offices could also be sold, which became hereditary,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBennassar200199_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBennassar200199-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> so that the government of the cities went on to hands of urban oligarchies.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In order to control the municipal life, the Crown ordered the appointment of <i>corregidores</i> and <i>alcaldes mayores</i> to exert greater political control and judicial functions in minor districts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHistoria_general_de_España1992615_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHistoria_general_de_España1992615-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their functions were governing the respective municipalities, administering of justice and being appellate judges in the <i>alcaldes menores</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span> judgments,<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but only the <i>corregidor</i> could preside over the <i>cabildo</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, both charges were also put up for sale freely since the late 16th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBennassar2001101_130-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBennassar2001101-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most Spanish settlers came to the Indies as permanent residents, established families and businesses, and sought advancement in the colonial system, such as membership of cabildos, so that they were in the hands of local, American-born (<i>crillo</i>) elites. During the Bourbon era, even when the crown systematically appointed peninsular-born Spaniards to royal posts rather than American-born, the cabildos remained in the hands of local elites.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELockhartSchwartz1983322_131-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELockhartSchwartz1983322-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Frontier_institutions_–_presidio_and_mission"><span id="Frontier_institutions_.E2.80.93_presidio_and_mission"></span>Frontier institutions – presidio and mission</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Presidio" title="Presidio">Presidio</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spanish_missions_in_the_Americas" title="Spanish missions in the Americas">Spanish missions in the Americas</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Presidio_of_San_Diego_1820_map.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Presidio_of_San_Diego_1820_map.jpg/250px-Presidio_of_San_Diego_1820_map.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Presidio_of_San_Diego_1820_map.jpg/375px-Presidio_of_San_Diego_1820_map.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Presidio_of_San_Diego_1820_map.jpg/500px-Presidio_of_San_Diego_1820_map.jpg 2x" data-file-width="544" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The San Diego presidio in California</figcaption></figure> <p>As the empire expanded into areas of less dense indigenous populations, the crown created a chain of <a href="/wiki/Presidio" title="Presidio">presidios</a>, military forts or garrisons, that provided Spanish settlers protection from Indian attacks. In Mexico during the sixteenth-century <a href="/wiki/Chichimec_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Chichimec War">Chichimec War</a> guarded the transit of silver from the mines of Zacatecas to Mexico City. As many as 60 salaried soldiers were garrisoned in presidios.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGibson1966191–192_132-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGibson1966191–192-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Presidios had a resident commanders, who set up commercial enterprises of imported merchandise, selling it to soldiers as well as Indian allies.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAltmanClineJavier_Pescador2003321–322_133-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAltmanClineJavier_Pescador2003321–322-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The other frontier institution was the religious <a href="/wiki/Mission_(station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mission (station)">mission</a> to convert the indigenous populations. Missions were established with royal authority through the <a href="/wiki/Patronato_real" title="Patronato real">Patronato real</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Jesus">Jesuits</a> were effective missionaries in frontier areas until their expulsion from Spain and its empire in 1767. The Franciscans took over some former Jesuit missions and continued the expansion of areas incorporated into the empire. Although their primary focus was on religious conversion, missionaries served as "diplomatic agents, peace emissaries to hostile tribes ... and they were also expected to hold the line against nomadic nonmissionary Indians as well as other European powers."<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the frontier of empire, Indians were seen as <i>sin razón</i>, ("without reason"); non-Indian populations were described as <i><a href="/wiki/Gente_de_raz%C3%B3n" title="Gente de razón">gente de razón</a></i> ("people of reason"), who could be mixed-race <a href="/wiki/Casta" title="Casta">castas</a> or black and had greater social mobility in frontier regions.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Catholic_Church_organization">Catholic Church organization</h2></div> <p>Christian evangelization of non-Christian peoples was a key factor in Spaniards' justification of the conquest of indigenous peoples in what was called "the spiritual conquest". In 2000, Pope <a href="/wiki/John_Paul_II" class="mw-redirect" title="John Paul II">John Paul II</a> apologized for errors committed by the Catholic Church, including forced conversion.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes.com_109-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes.com-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_evangelization">Early evangelization</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Benavente_-_Bajorrelieve_de_Fray_Toribio_de_Benavente,_%27Motolin%C3%ADa%27.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Benavente_-_Bajorrelieve_de_Fray_Toribio_de_Benavente%2C_%27Motolin%C3%ADa%27.jpg/220px-Benavente_-_Bajorrelieve_de_Fray_Toribio_de_Benavente%2C_%27Motolin%C3%ADa%27.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="318" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Benavente_-_Bajorrelieve_de_Fray_Toribio_de_Benavente%2C_%27Motolin%C3%ADa%27.jpg/330px-Benavente_-_Bajorrelieve_de_Fray_Toribio_de_Benavente%2C_%27Motolin%C3%ADa%27.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Benavente_-_Bajorrelieve_de_Fray_Toribio_de_Benavente%2C_%27Motolin%C3%ADa%27.jpg/440px-Benavente_-_Bajorrelieve_de_Fray_Toribio_de_Benavente%2C_%27Motolin%C3%ADa%27.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1344" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>Modern bas-relief of Franciscan friar Motolinia</figcaption></figure> <p>During the early colonial period, the crown authorized friars of <a href="/wiki/Catholic_religious_order" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic religious order">Catholic religious orders</a> (<a href="/wiki/Order_of_Friars_Minor" title="Order of Friars Minor">Franciscans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Order" title="Dominican Order">Dominicans</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Augustine" title="Order of Saint Augustine">Augustinians</a>) to function as priests during the conversion of indigenous populations. During the early <a href="/wiki/Age_of_Discovery" title="Age of Discovery">Age of Discovery</a>, the diocesan clergy in Spain was poorly educated and considered of a low moral standing, and the Catholic Monarchs were reluctant to allow them to spearhead evangelization. Each order set up networks of parishes in the various regions (provinces), sited in existing indigenous settlements, where Christian churches were built and where evangelization of the indigenous was based. <a href="/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s" title="Hernán Cortés">Hernán Cortés</a> requested Franciscan and Dominican friars be sent to <a href="/wiki/New_Spain" title="New Spain">New Spain</a> immediately after the conquest of Tenochtitlan to begin evangelization. The Franciscans arrived first in 1525 in a group of twelve, the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Apostles_of_Mexico" title="Twelve Apostles of Mexico">Twelve Apostles of Mexico</a>. Among this first group was <a href="/wiki/Toribio_de_Benavente" title="Toribio de Benavente">Toribio de Benavente</a>, known now as <i>Motolinia</i>, the <a href="/wiki/Nahuatl" title="Nahuatl">Nahuatl</a> word for poor.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Establishment_of_the_church_hierarchy">Establishment of the church hierarchy</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Catedral_de_Lima_2015.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Catedral_de_Lima_2015.jpg/220px-Catedral_de_Lima_2015.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Catedral_de_Lima_2015.jpg/330px-Catedral_de_Lima_2015.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Catedral_de_Lima_2015.jpg/440px-Catedral_de_Lima_2015.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5456" data-file-height="3632" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Lima_Cathedral" class="mw-redirect" title="Lima Cathedral">Lima Cathedral</a>, construction begun in 1535, completed 1649</figcaption></figure> <p>After the 1550s, the crown increasingly favored the diocesan clergy over the religious orders. The diocesan clergy (also called the <a href="/wiki/Secular_clergy" title="Secular clergy">secular clergy</a>) were under the direct authority of bishops, who were appointed by the crown, through the power granted by the pope in the <a href="/wiki/Patronato_real" title="Patronato real">Patronato real</a>. Religious orders had their own internal regulations and leadership. The crown had authority to draw the boundaries for dioceses and parishes. The creation of the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the diocesan clergy marked a turning point in the crown's control over the religious sphere. The structure of the hierarchy was in many ways parallel to that of civil governance. The pope was the head of the Catholic Church, but the granting of the Patronato real to the Spanish monarchy gave the king the power of appointment (patronage) of ecclesiastics. The monarch was head of the civil and religious hierarchies. The capital city of a viceroyalty became of the seat of the archbishop. The region overseen by the archbishop was divided into large units, the <a href="/wiki/Diocese" title="Diocese">diocese</a>, headed by a bishop. The diocese was in turn divided into smaller units, the <a href="/wiki/Parish" title="Parish">parish</a>, staffed by a parish priest. </p><p>In 1574, Philip II promulgated the Order of Patronage (<i>Ordenaza del Patronato</i>) ordering the religious orders to turn over their parishes to the secular clergy, a policy that secular clerics had long sought for the central areas of empire, with their large indigenous populations. Although implementation was slow and incomplete, it was an assertion of royal power over the clergy and the quality of parish priests improved, since the Ordenanza mandated competitive examination to fill vacant positions.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Religious orders along with the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Jesus">Jesuits</a> then embarked on further evangelization in frontier regions of the empire. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Jesuits">Jesuits</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Jesus">Society of Jesus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Suppression_of_the_Jesuits" class="mw-redirect" title="Suppression of the Jesuits">Suppression of the Jesuits</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Church_of_la_Compa%C3%B1%C3%ADa,_Cuzco.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Church_of_la_Compa%C3%B1%C3%ADa%2C_Cuzco.jpg/220px-Church_of_la_Compa%C3%B1%C3%ADa%2C_Cuzco.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Church_of_la_Compa%C3%B1%C3%ADa%2C_Cuzco.jpg/330px-Church_of_la_Compa%C3%B1%C3%ADa%2C_Cuzco.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Church_of_la_Compa%C3%B1%C3%ADa%2C_Cuzco.jpg/440px-Church_of_la_Compa%C3%B1%C3%ADa%2C_Cuzco.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="948" /></a><figcaption>Church of la Companía <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Jesus">Society of Jesus</a> in Cuzco, Peru</figcaption></figure> <p>The Jesuits resisted crown control, refusing to pay the <a href="/wiki/Tithe" title="Tithe">tithe</a> on their estates that supported the ecclesiastical hierarchy and came into conflict with bishops. The most prominent example is in Puebla, Mexico, when Bishop <a href="/wiki/Juan_de_Palafox_y_Mendoza" title="Juan de Palafox y Mendoza">Juan de Palafox y Mendoza</a> was driven from his bishopric by the Jesuits. The bishop challenged the Jesuits' continuing to hold Indian parishes and function as priests without the required royal licenses. His fall from power is viewed as an example of the weakening of the crown in the mid-seventeenth century since it failed to protect their duly appointed bishop.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrading1993241–247_140-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrading1993241–247-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The crown <a href="/wiki/Suppression_of_the_Jesuits" class="mw-redirect" title="Suppression of the Jesuits">expelled the Jesuits</a> from Spain and The Indies in 1767 during the <a href="/wiki/Bourbon_Reforms" title="Bourbon Reforms">Bourbon Reforms</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Holy_Office_of_the_Inquisition">Holy Office of the Inquisition</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Mexican_Inquisition" title="Mexican Inquisition">Mexican Inquisition</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peruvian_Inquisition" title="Peruvian Inquisition">Peruvian Inquisition</a></div> <p>Inquisitional powers were initially vested in bishops, who could root out idolatry and heresy. In Mexico, Bishop <a href="/wiki/Juan_de_Zum%C3%A1rraga" title="Juan de Zumárraga">Juan de Zumárraga</a> prosecuted and had executed in 1539 a <a href="/wiki/Nahua" class="mw-redirect" title="Nahua">Nahua</a> lord, known as Don <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Ometochtzin" title="Carlos Ometochtzin">Carlos of Texcoco</a> for <a href="/wiki/Apostasy" title="Apostasy">apostasy</a> and sedition for having converted to Christianity and then renounced his conversion and urged others to do so as well. Zumárraga was reprimanded for his actions as exceeding his authority.<sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the formal institution of the Inquisition was established in 1571, indigenous peoples were excluded from its jurisdiction on the grounds that they were neophytes, new converts, and not capable of understanding religious doctrine. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Society">Society</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Demographic_impact_of_colonization">Demographic impact of colonization</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Population_history_of_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Population history of indigenous peoples of the Americas">Population history of indigenous peoples of the Americas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cocoliztli_epidemics" title="Cocoliztli epidemics">Cocoliztli epidemics</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FlorentineCodex_BK12_F54_smallpox.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/FlorentineCodex_BK12_F54_smallpox.jpg/220px-FlorentineCodex_BK12_F54_smallpox.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/FlorentineCodex_BK12_F54_smallpox.jpg/330px-FlorentineCodex_BK12_F54_smallpox.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/FlorentineCodex_BK12_F54_smallpox.jpg/440px-FlorentineCodex_BK12_F54_smallpox.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="494" /></a><figcaption>Depiction of <a href="/wiki/Smallpox" title="Smallpox">smallpox</a> in Book XII of the 16th-century <i><a href="/wiki/Florentine_Codex" title="Florentine Codex">Florentine Codex</a></i> (compiled 1540–1585) in conquest-era central Mexico suffering from smallpox</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Acuna-Soto_EID-v8n4p360_Fig1.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Acuna-Soto_EID-v8n4p360_Fig1.png/220px-Acuna-Soto_EID-v8n4p360_Fig1.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Acuna-Soto_EID-v8n4p360_Fig1.png/330px-Acuna-Soto_EID-v8n4p360_Fig1.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Acuna-Soto_EID-v8n4p360_Fig1.png/440px-Acuna-Soto_EID-v8n4p360_Fig1.png 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="599" /></a><figcaption>Population collapse in Mexico</figcaption></figure> <p>It has been estimated that over 1.86 million Spaniards emigrated to Latin America in the period between 1492 and 1824, with millions more continuing to immigrate following independence.<sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Native populations declined significantly during the period of Spanish expansion. In Hispaniola, the indigenous Taíno pre-contact population before the arrival of Columbus of several hundred thousand had declined to sixty thousand by 1509. The population of the Native American population in <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> declined by an estimated 90% (reduced to 1–2.5 million people) by the early 17th century.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In <a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a>, the indigenous Amerindian pre-contact population of around 6.5 million declined to 1 million by the early 17th century.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The overwhelming cause of the decline in both Mexico and Peru was <a href="/wiki/Infectious_diseases" class="mw-redirect" title="Infectious diseases">infectious diseases</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Smallpox" title="Smallpox">smallpox</a> and <a href="/wiki/Measles" title="Measles">measles</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although the brutality of the <a href="/wiki/Encomienda" title="Encomienda">encomienda</a> also played a significant part in the population decline.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Of the history of the indigenous population of <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sherburne_F._Cook" title="Sherburne F. Cook">Sherburne F. Cook</a> (1896–1974) was the most painstakingly careful researcher. From decades of research, he made estimates for the pre-contact population and the history of demographic decline during the Spanish and post-Spanish periods. According to Cook, the indigenous Californian population at first contact, in 1769, was about 310,000 and had dropped to 25,000 by 1910. The vast majority of the decline happened after the Spanish period, during the <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexican</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">US</a> periods of Californian history (1821–1910), with the most dramatic collapse (200,000 to 25,000) occurring in the US period (1846–1910).<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spanish_American_populations_and_race">Spanish American populations and race</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Castas" class="mw-redirect" title="Castas">Castas</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Casta_Painting_by_Luis_de_Mena.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Casta_Painting_by_Luis_de_Mena.jpg/220px-Casta_Painting_by_Luis_de_Mena.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="268" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Casta_Painting_by_Luis_de_Mena.jpg/330px-Casta_Painting_by_Luis_de_Mena.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Casta_Painting_by_Luis_de_Mena.jpg/440px-Casta_Painting_by_Luis_de_Mena.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5404" data-file-height="6586" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Luis_de_Mena" title="Luis de Mena">Luis de Mena</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virgin_of_Guadalupe" class="mw-redirect" title="Virgin of Guadalupe">Virgin of Guadalupe</a> and racial hierarchy, 1750. Museo de América, Madrid.</figcaption></figure> <p>The largest population in Spanish America was and remained indigenous, what Spaniards called "Indians" (<i>indios</i>), a category that did not exist before the arrival of the Europeans. The Spanish Crown separated them into the <i>República de Indios</i>. Europeans immigrated from various provinces of Spain, with initial waves of emigration consisting of more men than women. They were referred to as <i>Españoles</i> and <i>Españolas</i>, and later being differentiated by the terms indicating place of birth, <i>peninsular</i> for those born in Spain; <i>criollo/criolla</i> or <i>Americano/Ameriana</i> for those born in the Americas. <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade" title="Atlantic slave trade">Enslaved Africans</a> were imported to Spanish territories, primarily to <a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Cuba" title="Captaincy General of Cuba">Cuba</a>. As was the case in peninsular Spain, Africans (<i>negros</i>) were able buy their freedom (horro), so that in most of the empire free Blacks and Mulatto (Black + Spanish) populations outnumbered slave populations. Spaniards and Indigenous parents produced <a href="/wiki/Mestizo" title="Mestizo">Mestizo</a> offspring, who were also part of the República de Españoles.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Latin_American_economy#Colonial_era_and_Independence_(ca._1500–1850)" title="Latin American economy">Latin American economy § Colonial era and Independence (ca. 1500–1850)</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_economy_of_indigenous_tribute_and_labor">Early economy of indigenous tribute and labor</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Codex_Mendoza_folio_37r.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Codex_Mendoza_folio_37r.jpg/220px-Codex_Mendoza_folio_37r.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="324" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Codex_Mendoza_folio_37r.jpg/330px-Codex_Mendoza_folio_37r.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Codex_Mendoza_folio_37r.jpg/440px-Codex_Mendoza_folio_37r.jpg 2x" data-file-width="735" data-file-height="1084" /></a><figcaption>Tribute from one region of the <a href="/wiki/Aztec_Empire" title="Aztec Empire">Aztec Empire</a> as shown in <a href="/wiki/Codex_Mendoza" title="Codex Mendoza">Codex Mendoza</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Florentine_Codex-_Agriculture.tiff" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/The_Florentine_Codex-_Agriculture.tiff/lossy-page1-175px-The_Florentine_Codex-_Agriculture.tiff.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="266" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/The_Florentine_Codex-_Agriculture.tiff/lossy-page1-263px-The_Florentine_Codex-_Agriculture.tiff.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/The_Florentine_Codex-_Agriculture.tiff/lossy-page1-350px-The_Florentine_Codex-_Agriculture.tiff.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2364" data-file-height="3593" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Aztec" class="mw-redirect" title="Aztec">Aztec</a> <a href="/wiki/Maize" title="Maize">maize</a> agriculture as depicted in the <a href="/wiki/Florentine_Codex" title="Florentine Codex">Florentine Codex</a> (1576)</figcaption></figure> <p>In areas of dense, stratified indigenous populations, especially <a href="/wiki/Mesoamerica" title="Mesoamerica">Mesoamerica</a> and the Andean region, Spanish conquerors awarded perpetual private grants of labor and tribute to particular indigenous settlements, in <a href="/wiki/Encomienda" title="Encomienda">encomienda</a> they were in a privileged position to accumulate private wealth. Spaniards had some knowledge of the existing indigenous practices of labor and tribute, so that learning in more detail what tribute particular regions delivered to the Aztec Empire prompted the creation of <a href="/wiki/Codex_Mendoza" title="Codex Mendoza">Codex Mendoza</a>, a codification for Spanish use. The rural regions remained highly indigenous, with little interface between the large numbers of indigenous and the small numbers of the República de Españoles, which included Blacks and mixed-race castas. Tribute goods in Mexico were most usually lengths of cotton cloth, woven by women, and maize and other foodstuffs produced by men. These could be sold in markets and thereby converted to cash. In the early period for Spaniards, formal ownership of land was less important than control of indigenous labor and receiving tribute. Spaniards had seen the disappearance of the indigenous populations in the Caribbean, and with that, the disappearance of their main source of wealth, propelling Spaniards to expand their regions of control. With the conquests of the Aztec and Inca empires, large numbers of Spaniards emigrated from the Iberian peninsula to seek their fortune or to pursue better economic conditions for themselves. The establishment of large, permanent Spanish settlements attracted a whole range of new residents, who set up shop as carpenters, bakers, tailors and other artisan activities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sugar_and_slavery">Sugar and slavery</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_colonial_Spanish_America" title="Slavery in colonial Spanish America">Slavery in colonial Spanish America</a></div> <p>The early Caribbean proved a massive disappointment for Spaniards, who had hoped to find mineral wealth and exploitable indigenous populations. Gold existed in only small amounts, and the indigenous peoples died off in massive numbers. For the colony's continued existence, a reliable source of labor was needed. That was of enslaved Africans. Cane sugar imported from the Old World was a high value, a low bulk export product that became the bulwark of tropical economies of the Caribbean islands and coastal Tierra Firme (the Spanish Main), as well as Portuguese <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Brazil" title="Colonial Brazil">Brazil</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Silver">Silver</h3></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hacienda_Nueva_de_Fresnillo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Hacienda_Nueva_de_Fresnillo.jpg/300px-Hacienda_Nueva_de_Fresnillo.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Hacienda_Nueva_de_Fresnillo.jpg/450px-Hacienda_Nueva_de_Fresnillo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Hacienda_Nueva_de_Fresnillo.jpg/600px-Hacienda_Nueva_de_Fresnillo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1423" /></a><figcaption>Depiction of the patio process at the Hacienda Nueva de <a href="/wiki/Fresnillo" title="Fresnillo">Fresnillo</a>, Zacatecas, <a href="/wiki/Pietro_Gualdi" title="Pietro Gualdi">Pietro Gualdi</a>, 1846</figcaption></figure> <p>Silver was the bonanza the Spaniards sought. Large deposits were found in a single mountain in the viceroyalty of Peru, the Cerro Rico, in what is now Bolivia, and in several places outside of the dense indigenous zone of settlement in northern Mexico, <a href="/wiki/Zacatecas" title="Zacatecas">Zacatecas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Guanajuato" title="Guanajuato">Guanajuato</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Andes, Viceroy <a href="/wiki/Francisco_de_Toledo" title="Francisco de Toledo">Francisco de Toledo</a> revived the indigenous rotary labor system of the <i><a href="/wiki/Mit%27a" title="Mit'a">mita</a></i> to supply labor for silver mining.<sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Mexico, the labor force had to be lured from elsewhere in the colony, and was not based on traditional systems of rotary labor. In Mexico, refining took place in <i>haciendas de minas</i>, where silver ore was refined into pure silver by amalgamation with mercury in what was known as the <a href="/wiki/Patio_process" title="Patio process">patio process</a>. Ore was crushed with the aid of mules and then mercury could be applied to draw out the pure silver. Mercury was a monopoly of the crown. In Peru, the Cerro Rico's ore was processed from the local mercury mine of <a href="/wiki/Huancavelica" title="Huancavelica">Huancavelica</a>, while in Mexico mercury was imported from the Almadén mercury mine in Spain. Mercury is a <a href="/wiki/Neurotoxin" title="Neurotoxin">neurotoxin</a>, which damaged and killed human and mules coming into contact with it. In the Huancavelica region, mercury continues to wreak ecological damage.<sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Development_of_agriculture_and_ranching">Development of agriculture and ranching</h3></div> <p>To feed urban populations and mining workforces, small-scale farms (ranchos), (<a href="/wiki/Estancia" title="Estancia">estancias</a>), and large-scale enterprises (<a href="/wiki/Haciendas" class="mw-redirect" title="Haciendas">haciendas</a>) emerged to fill the demand, especially for foodstuffs that Spaniards wanted to eat, most especially wheat. In areas of sparse population, ranching of cattle (<i>ganado mayor</i>) and smaller livestock (<i>ganado menor</i>) such as sheep and goats ranged widely and were largely feral. There is debate about the impact of ranching on the environment in the colonial era, with sheep herding being called out for its negative impact, while others contest that.<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With only a small labor force to draw on, ranching was an ideal economic activity for some regions. Most agriculture and ranching supplied local needs, since transportation was difficult, slow, and expensive.<sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Only the most valuable low bulk products would be exported. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Agricultural_export_products">Agricultural export products</h3></div> <p>Cacao beans for chocolate emerged as an export product as Europeans developed a taste for sweetened chocolate. Another important export product was <a href="/wiki/Cochineal" title="Cochineal">cochineal</a>, a color-fast red dye made from dried insects living on cacti. It became the second-most valuable export from Spanish America after silver.<sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="19th_century">19th century</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_American_wars_of_independence" title="Spanish American wars of independence">Spanish American wars of independence</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hisparevol.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Hisparevol.gif/250px-Hisparevol.gif" decoding="async" width="250" height="323" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Hisparevol.gif/375px-Hisparevol.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Hisparevol.gif 2x" data-file-width="470" data-file-height="608" /></a><figcaption><br /><b>Development of Spanish American Independence</b><br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FF0000; color:black;"> </span> Government under traditional Spanish law</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FFA500; color:black;"> </span> Loyal to Supreme Central Junta or Cortes</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FFFF00; color:black;"> </span> American junta or insurrection movement</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#008000; color:white;"> </span> Independent state declared or established</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#000080; color:white;"> </span> Height of French control of the Peninsula</div></figcaption></figure> <p>During the Napoleonic <a href="/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">Peninsular War</a> in Europe between France and Spain, assemblies called <i><a href="/wiki/Junta_(Peninsular_War)" title="Junta (Peninsular War)">juntas</a></i> were established to rule in the name of <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_VII_of_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Ferdinand VII of Spain">Ferdinand VII of Spain</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Libertadores" title="Libertadores">Libertadores</a> (Spanish and Portuguese for "Liberators") were the principal leaders of the Spanish American wars of independence. They were predominantly <i><a href="/wiki/Criollo_people" title="Criollo people">criollos</a></i> (Americas-born people of European ancestry, mostly Spanish or Portuguese), <a href="/wiki/Bourgeois" class="mw-redirect" title="Bourgeois">bourgeois</a> and influenced by <a href="/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism">liberalism</a> and in some cases with military training in the <a href="/wiki/Homeland" title="Homeland">mother country</a>. </p><p>In 1809 the first declarations of independence from Spanish rule occurred in the <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_Peru" title="Viceroyalty of Peru">Viceroyalty of Peru</a>. The first two were in Upper Peru, present-day <a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a>, at Charcas (present day <a href="/wiki/Sucre" title="Sucre">Sucre</a>, 25 May), and <a href="/wiki/La_Paz" title="La Paz">La Paz</a> (16 July); and the third in present-day <a href="/wiki/Ecuador" title="Ecuador">Ecuador</a> at <a href="/wiki/Quito" title="Quito">Quito</a> (10 August). In 1810 Mexico declared independence, with the <a href="/wiki/Mexican_War_of_Independence" title="Mexican War of Independence">Mexican War of Independence</a> following for over a decade. In 1821 <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_C%C3%B3rdoba" title="Treaty of Córdoba">Treaty of Córdoba</a> established Mexican independence from Spain and concluded the War. The <a href="/wiki/Plan_of_Iguala" title="Plan of Iguala">Plan of Iguala</a> was part of the peace treaty to establish a constitutional foundation for an independent Mexico. </p><p>These began a movement for <a href="/wiki/Spanish_American_wars_of_independence" title="Spanish American wars of independence">colonial independence</a> that spread to Spain's other colonies in the Americas. The ideas from the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French</a> and the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> influenced the efforts. All of the colonies, except Cuba and Puerto Rico, attained independence by the 1820s. The <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a> offered support, wanting to end the Spanish monopoly on trade with its colonies in the Americas. </p><p>In 1898, the United States achieved victory in the <a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a> with Spain, ending the Spanish colonial era. Spanish possession and rule of its remaining colonies in the Americas ended in that year with its sovereignty transferred to the United States. The United States took occupation of <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>. Puerto Rico continues to be a possession of the United States, now officially continues as a <a href="/wiki/Self-governing" class="mw-redirect" title="Self-governing">self-governing</a> <a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Unincorporated territory">unincorporated territory</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreliable_sources plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-unreliable_sources" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/40px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/60px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/80px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">Some of this section's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">listed sources</a> <b>may not be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">reliable</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help improve this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Unreliable citations may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">September 2021</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In the twentieth century, there have been a number of films depicting the life of Christopher Columbus. One in 1949 stars <a href="/wiki/Fredric_March" title="Fredric March">Fredric March</a> as Columbus.<sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the 1992 commemoration (and critique) of Columbus, more cinematic and television depictions of the era appeared, including a television miniseries with <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Byrne" title="Gabriel Byrne">Gabriel Byrne</a> as Columbus.<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Christopher Columbus: The Discovery</i> (1992) has Georges Corroface as Columbus with <a href="/wiki/Marlon_Brando" title="Marlon Brando">Marlon Brando</a> as <a href="/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada" title="Tomás de Torquemada">Tomás de Torquemada</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tom_Selleck" title="Tom Selleck">Tom Selleck</a> as <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_II_of_Aragon" title="Ferdinand II of Aragon">King Ferdinand</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Ward" title="Rachel Ward">Rachel Ward</a> as Queen Isabela.<sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>1492: The Conquest of Paradise</i> stars <a href="/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Depardieu" title="Gérard Depardieu">Gérard Depardieu</a> as Columbus and <a href="/wiki/Sigourney_Weaver" title="Sigourney Weaver">Sigourney Weaver</a> as Queen Isabel.<sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-161"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 2010 film, <i><a href="/wiki/Even_the_Rain" title="Even the Rain">Even the Rain</a></i> starring <a href="/wiki/Gael_Garc%C3%ADa_Bernal" title="Gael García Bernal">Gael García Bernal</a>, is set in modern <a href="/wiki/Cochabamba" title="Cochabamba">Cochabamba</a>, Bolivia during the <a href="/wiki/Cochabamba_Water_War" title="Cochabamba Water War">Cochabamba Water War</a>, following a film crew shooting a controversial life of Columbus.<sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-163" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-163"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 1995 Bolivian-made film is in some ways similar to <i>Even the Rain</i> is <i>To Hear the Birds Singing</i>, with a modern film crew going to an indigenous settlement to shoot a film about the Spanish conquest and end up replicating aspects of the conquest.<sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For the conquest of the Aztec Empire, the 2019 eight-episode Mexican television miniseries <i>Hernán</i> depicts such historical events. Other notable historical figures in the production are <a href="/wiki/Malinche" class="mw-redirect" title="Malinche">Malinche</a>, Cortés cultural translator, and other conquerors <a href="/wiki/Pedro_de_Alvarado" title="Pedro de Alvarado">Pedro de Alvarado</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crist%C3%B3bal_de_Olid" title="Cristóbal de Olid">Cristóbal de Olid</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bernal_D%C3%ADaz_del_Castillo" title="Bernal Díaz del Castillo">Bernal Díaz del Castillo</a>. Showing the indigenous sides are <a href="/wiki/Xicotencatl_I" title="Xicotencatl I">Xicotencatl</a>, a leader of the Spaniards' Tlaxcalan allies, and Aztec emperors <a href="/wiki/Moctezuma_II" title="Moctezuma II">Moctezuma II</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cuitl%C3%A1huac" title="Cuitláhuac">Cuitláhuac</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The story of Doña Marina, also known as Malinche, was the subject of a Mexican television miniseries in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-166"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A major production in Mexico was the 1998 film, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Other_Conquest" title="The Other Conquest">The Other Conquest</a></i>, which focuses on a <a href="/wiki/Nahua" class="mw-redirect" title="Nahua">Nahua</a> man in the post-conquest era and the evangelization of central Mexico.<sup id="cite_ref-167" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-167"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The epic journey of <a href="/wiki/%C3%81lvar_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cabeza_de_Vaca" title="Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca">Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca</a> has been portrayed in a 1991 feature-length Mexican film, <i><a href="/wiki/Cabeza_de_Vaca_(film)" title="Cabeza de Vaca (film)">Cabeza de Vaca</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-168" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-168"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The similarly epic and dark journey of <a href="/wiki/Lope_de_Aguirre" title="Lope de Aguirre">Lope de Aguirre</a> was made into a film by <a href="/wiki/Werner_Herzog" title="Werner Herzog">Werner Herzog</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Aguirre,_the_Wrath_of_God" title="Aguirre, the Wrath of God">Aguirre, the Wrath of God</a></i> (1972), starring <a href="/wiki/Klaus_Kinski" title="Klaus Kinski">Klaus Kinski</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-169" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-169"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mission_(1986_film)" title="The Mission (1986 film)">The Mission</a></i> was a 1996 film idealizing a Jesuit mission to the <a href="/wiki/Guaran%C3%AD_people" title="Guaraní people">Guaraní</a> in the territory disputed between Spain and Portugal. The film starred <a href="/wiki/Robert_De_Niro" title="Robert De Niro">Robert De Niro</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Irons" title="Jeremy Irons">Jeremy Irons</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Liam_Neeson" title="Liam Neeson">Liam Neeson</a> and It won an <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-170" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-170"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The life of seventeenth-century Mexican nun, Sor <a href="/wiki/Juana_In%C3%A9s_de_la_Cruz" title="Juana Inés de la Cruz">Juana Inés de la Cruz</a>, renowned in her lifetime, has been portrayed in a 1990 Argentine film, <i><a href="/wiki/I,_the_Worst_of_All" title="I, the Worst of All">I, the Worst of All</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in the television miniseries <i>Juana Inés</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-172" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-172"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seventeenth-century Mexican trickster <a href="/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Garatuza" title="Martín Garatuza">Martín Garatuza</a> was the subject of a late nineteenth-century novel by Mexican politician and writer, <a href="/wiki/Vicente_Riva_Palacio" title="Vicente Riva Palacio">Vicente Riva Palacio</a>. In the twentieth century, Garatuza's life was the subject of a 1935 film<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a 1986 <a href="/wiki/Telenovela" title="Telenovela">telenovela</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Garatuza_(TV_series)" title="Martín Garatuza (TV series)">Martín Garatuza</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-174" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-174"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For the independence era, the 2016 Bolivian-made film made about <a href="/wiki/Mestizo" title="Mestizo">Mestiza</a> independence leader <a href="/wiki/Juana_Azurduy_de_Padilla" title="Juana Azurduy de Padilla">Juana Azurduy de Padilla</a>, <i>Juana Azurduy, Guerrillera de la Patria Grande</i>, is part of the recent recognition of her role in the independence of Argentina and Bolivia.<sup id="cite_ref-175" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-175"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dominions">Dominions</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SpanishEmpire1606.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/SpanishEmpire1606.svg/220px-SpanishEmpire1606.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/SpanishEmpire1606.svg/330px-SpanishEmpire1606.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/SpanishEmpire1606.svg/440px-SpanishEmpire1606.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2589" data-file-height="1318" /></a><figcaption>Spanish and Portuguese empires. Settlement in the Americas, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1600</span>. Although the crowns asserted sovereignty over great expanses of territory, this modern map shows the sparseness of actual European settlement in dark blue.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="North_America,_Central_America"><span id="North_America.2C_Central_America"></span>North America, Central America</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spanish_North_America.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Spanish_North_America.png/220px-Spanish_North_America.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Spanish_North_America.png/330px-Spanish_North_America.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Spanish_North_America.png/440px-Spanish_North_America.png 2x" data-file-width="7949" data-file-height="7944" /></a><figcaption>Spanish historical presence, claimed territories, points of interest and expeditions in North America.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Spain" title="New Spain">Viceroyalty of New Spain</a> (1535–1821) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Las_Californias" class="mw-redirect" title="Las Californias">Las Californias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Kingdom_of_Le%C3%B3n" title="New Kingdom of León">Nuevo Reino de León</a></li> <li>Territorio de Nutka</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuevo_Santander" title="Nuevo Santander">Nuevo Santander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nueva_Vizcaya,_New_Spain" title="Nueva Vizcaya, New Spain">Nueva Vizcaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Fe_de_Nuevo_M%C3%A9xico" title="Santa Fe de Nuevo México">Santa Fe de Nuevo México</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nueva_Extremadura" title="Nueva Extremadura">Nueva Extremadura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nueva_Galicia" title="Nueva Galicia">Nueva Galicia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Guatemala" title="Captaincy General of 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directly administered by Madrid until 1898)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="South_America">South America</h3></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_Peru" title="Viceroyalty of Peru">Viceroyalty of Peru</a> (1542–1824)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Chile" title="Captaincy General of Chile">Captaincy General of Chile</a> (1541–1818)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Granada" title="Viceroyalty of New Granada">Viceroyalty of New Granada</a> (1717–1819)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Venezuela" title="Captaincy General of Venezuela">Captaincy General of Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata" title="Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata">Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata</a> (1776–1814)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output 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typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Flag_of_Venezuela.svg/21px-Flag_of_Venezuela.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Flag_of_Venezuela.svg/32px-Flag_of_Venezuela.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Flag_of_Venezuela.svg/42px-Flag_of_Venezuela.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Venezuela" title="Portal:Venezuela">Venezuela</a></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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surrounding land.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Florida was supposedly named because it was spotted on Easter, or the Festival of Flowers as it was commonly called in Spain.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> most notoriously, the <a href="/wiki/Acoma_Massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Acoma Massacre">Acoma Massacre</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li 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<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ida_Altman" title="Ida Altman">Altman, Ida</a> and David Wheat, eds. <i>The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century</i>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2019. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0803299573" title="Special:BookSources/978-0803299573">978-0803299573</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Brading" title="David Brading">Brading, D. A.</a>, <i>The First America: the Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State, 1492–1867</i> (Cambridge: <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a>, 1993).</li> <li>Burkholder, Mark A. and Lyman L. Johnson. <i>Colonial Latin America</i>, 10th ed. Oxford University Press 2018. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0190642402" title="Special:BookSources/978-0190642402">978-0190642402</a></li> <li>Chipman, Donald E. and Joseph, Harriett Denise. <i>Spanish Texas, 1519–1821.</i> (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992)</li> <li>Clark, Larry R. <i>Imperial Spain's Failure to Colonize Southeast North America: 1513–1587</i> (TimeSpan Press 2017) updated edition to <i>Spanish Attempts to Colonize Southeast North America</i> (McFarland Publishing, 2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Huxtable_Elliott" class="mw-redirect" title="John Huxtable Elliott">Elliott, J. H.</a> <i>Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830</i> (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)</li> <li>Gibson, Carrie. <i>Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day</i> (New York: Grove Press, 2015)</li> <li>Gibson, Carrie. <i><a href="/wiki/El_Norte:_The_Epic_and_Forgotten_Story_of_Hispanic_North_America" title="El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America">El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America</a></i> (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Gibson_(historian)" title="Charles Gibson (historian)">Gibson, Charles</a>. <i>Spain in America</i>. New York: Harper and Row 1966. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1299360297" title="Special:BookSources/978-1299360297">978-1299360297</a></li> <li>Goodwin, Robert. <i>América: The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493–1898</i> (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Hanke" title="Lewis Hanke">Hanke, Lewis</a>. <i>The Spanish Struggle for Justice in the Conquest of America</i> (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1965).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarence_H._Haring" title="Clarence H. Haring">Haring, Clarence H.</a> <i>The Spanish Empire in America</i> (London: Oxford University Press, 1947)</li> <li>Kamen, Henry. <i>Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492–1763</i> (HarperCollins, 2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Lockhart_(historian)" title="James Lockhart (historian)">Lockhart, James</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stuart_B._Schwartz" title="Stuart B. Schwartz">Stuart B. Schwartz</a>. <i>Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil</i>. New York: Cambridge University Press 1983. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0521299299" title="Special:BookSources/978-0521299299">978-0521299299</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merriman,_Roger_Bigelow" class="mw-redirect" title="Merriman, Roger Bigelow">Merriman, Roger Bigelow</a>. <i>The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New</i> (4 Vol. London: Macmillan, 1918) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Merriman%2C%20Roger%29%20empire">online free</a></li> <li>Portuondo, María M. <i>Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World</i> (Chicago: Chicago UP, 2009).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFReséndez2016" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Res%C3%A9ndez" title="Andrés Reséndez">Reséndez, Andrés</a> (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2gpCgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1"><i>The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America</i></a>. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 448. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0544602670" title="Special:BookSources/978-0544602670"><bdi>978-0544602670</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Other+Slavery%3A+The+Uncovered+Story+of+Indian+Enslavement+in+America&rft.pages=448&rft.pub=Houghton+Mifflin+Harcourt&rft.date=2016&rft.isbn=978-0544602670&rft.aulast=Res%C3%A9ndez&rft.aufirst=Andr%C3%A9s&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DZ2gpCgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPP1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASpanish+colonization+of+the+Americas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Restall" title="Matthew Restall">Restall, Matthew</a> and <a href="/wiki/Felipe_Fern%C3%A1ndez-Armesto" title="Felipe Fernández-Armesto">Fernández-Armesto, Felipe</a>. <i>The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction</i> (2012) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Conquistadors-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/0195392299/">excerpt and text search</a></li> <li>Restall, Matthew and <a href="/wiki/Kris_Lane" title="Kris Lane">Kris Lane</a>. <i>Latin America in Colonial Times</i>. New York: Cambridge University Press 2011.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Thomas_(writer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hugh Thomas (writer)">Thomas, Hugh</a>. <i>Rivers of Gold: the rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan</i> (2005)</li> <li>Weber, David J. <i>The Spanish Frontier in North America</i> (Yale University Press, 1992)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historiography">Historiography</h3></div> <ul><li>Cañeque, Alejandro "The Political and Institutional History of Colonial Spanish America" <i>History Compass</i> (April 2013) 114 pp 280–291, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fhic3.12043">10.1111/hic3.12043</a></li> <li>Herzog, Tamar (2018). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://journals.openedition.org/lerhistoria/3146">Indigenous Reducciones and Spanish Resettlement: Placing Colonial and European History in Dialogue</a>". <i>Ler Historia</i> (72): 9–30. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.4000%2Flerhistoria.3146">10.4000/lerhistoria.3146</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0870-6182">0870-6182</a>.</li> <li>Weber, David J. "John Francis Bannon and the Historiography of the Spanish Borderlands: Retrospect and Prospect." <i>Journal of the Southwest</i> (1987): 331–363. See <a href="/wiki/John_Francis_Bannon" title="John Francis Bannon">John Francis Bannon</a>.</li> <li>Weber, David J. 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Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Maya" title="Spanish conquest of the Maya">Maya</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Chiapas" title="Spanish conquest of Chiapas">Chiapas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Guatemala" title="Spanish conquest of Guatemala">Guatemala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Pet%C3%A9n" title="Spanish conquest of Petén">Petén</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Yucat%C3%A1n" title="Spanish conquest of Yucatán">Yucatán</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_El_Salvador" title="Spanish conquest of El Salvador">El Salvador</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Honduras" title="Spanish conquest of Honduras">Honduras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Nicaragua" title="Spanish conquest of Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="3" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a 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Cueva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas" title="Bartolomé de las Casas">Bartolomé de las Casas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_P%C3%A9rez_de_Quesada" title="Hernán Pérez de Quesada">Hernán Pérez de Quesada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Ponce_de_Le%C3%B3n" title="Juan Ponce de León">Juan Ponce de León</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francisco_de_Montejo" title="Francisco de Montejo">Francisco de Montejo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P%C3%A1nfilo_de_Narv%C3%A1ez" title="Pánfilo de Narváez">Pánfilo de Narváez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_de_O%C3%B1ate" title="Juan de Oñate">Juan de Oñate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francisco_de_Orellana" title="Francisco de Orellana">Francisco de Orellana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedro_de_Portocarrero_(conquistador)" title="Pedro de Portocarrero (conquistador)">Pedro de Portocarrero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francisco_Pizarro" title="Francisco Pizarro">Francisco Pizarro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto" 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title="Peninsular War">Napoleonic invasion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Treaty_of_San_Ildefonso" title="Third Treaty of San Ildefonso">Third Treaty of San Ildefonso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_American_wars_of_independence" title="Spanish American wars of independence">Independence of Spanish continental Americas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adams%E2%80%93On%C3%ADs_Treaty" title="Adams–Onís Treaty">Adams–Onís Treaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Constitution_of_1812" title="Spanish Constitution of 1812">Liberal constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlist_Wars" title="Carlist Wars">Carlist Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Spanish_Treaty_(1899)" title="German–Spanish Treaty (1899)">German–Spanish Treaty (1899)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a></li> <li><a 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Europe" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Europe</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Crown_of_Castille" class="mw-redirect" title="Crown of Castille">Crown of Castille</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crown_of_Aragon" title="Crown of Aragon">Crown of Aragon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iberian_Union" title="Iberian Union">Union with Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a></li></ul></li> <li>Southern Italy (Kingdoms of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Naples#Aragonese_dynasty" title="Kingdom of Naples">Naples</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sicily#The_insular_kingdom_of_Sicily_under_the_Crown_of_Aragon_and_Spain" title="Kingdom of Sicily">Sicily</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sardinia#Aragonese_period" title="Sardinia">Sardinia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Milan" title="Duchy of Milan">Milan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor">Union with Holy Roman Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Netherlands" title="Spanish Netherlands">Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, northernmost France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franche-Comt%C3%A9" title="Franche-Comté">Franche-Comté</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Catalonia" title="Northern Catalonia">Pyrénées-Orientales</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="North_America" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">North America</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Spain" title="New Spain">New Spain</a> (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_expeditions_to_the_Pacific_Northwest" title="Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest">Coastal Alaska</a>, Central United States (<a href="/wiki/Louisiana_(New_Spain)" title="Louisiana (New Spain)">Spanish Louisiana</a>), Western United States (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_Texas" title="Spanish Texas">Spanish Texas</a>), <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Florida" title="Spanish Florida">Florida</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kingdom_of_Mexico&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kingdom of Mexico (page does not exist)">Mexico</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reino_de_M%C3%A9xico" class="extiw" title="es:Reino de México">es</a>]</span>, Central America (<a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Yucatan" class="mw-redirect" title="Captaincy General of Yucatan">Captaincy General of Yucatan</a>), <a href="/wiki/Spanish_West_Indies" title="Spanish West Indies">Spanish Caribbean</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Central_America" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Central America</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Guatemala" title="Captaincy General of Guatemala">Captaincy General of Guatemala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_West_Indies" title="Spanish West Indies">Spanish West Indies</a> (<a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Cuba" title="Captaincy General of Cuba">Cuba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Santo_Domingo" title="Captaincy General of Santo Domingo">Dominican Republic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Captaincy General of Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago#Spanish_period" title="History of Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Santiago" title="Colony of Santiago">Jamaica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Haiti#Spanish_history_(1492–1625)" title="History of Haiti">Haiti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aruba#History" title="Aruba">Aruba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao#History" title="Curaçao">Curazao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonaire#History" title="Bonaire">Bonaire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Belize_(1506%E2%80%931862)" title="History of Belize (1506–1862)">Belize</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="South_America" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">South America</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Granada" title="Viceroyalty of New Granada">New Granada</a> (<a href="/wiki/New_Kingdom_of_Granada" title="New Kingdom of Granada">Colombia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Quito" title="Real Audiencia of Quito">Ecuador</a>, <a href="/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Panama" title="Real Audiencia of Panama">Panama</a>, <a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Venezuela" title="Captaincy General of Venezuela">Venezuela, part of Guyana</a>, a northernmost portion of Brazilian Amazon)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_Peru" title="Viceroyalty of Peru">Peru</a> (Peru, <a href="/wiki/Acre_(state)" title="Acre (state)">Acre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Chile" title="Captaincy General of Chile">Chile</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata" title="Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata">Río de la Plata</a> (<a href="/wiki/Governorate_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata" title="Governorate of the Río de la Plata">Argentina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Governorate_of_Paraguay" title="Governorate of Paraguay">Paraguay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Charcas" title="Real Audiencia of Charcas">Charcas</a> (Bolivia), <a href="/wiki/Banda_Oriental" title="Banda Oriental">Banda Oriental</a> (Uruguay), <a href="/wiki/Misiones_Orientales" title="Misiones Orientales">Misiones Orientales</a>, <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Falkland_Islands" title="History of the Falkland Islands">Malvinas</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Asia_and_Oceania_(Spanish_East_Indies)" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Asia and Oceania (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_East_Indies" title="Spanish East Indies">Spanish East Indies</a>)</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_the_Philippines" title="Captaincy General of the Philippines">Captaincy General of the Philippines</a> (<a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Mariana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Islands" title="Caroline Islands">Caroline</a>, <a href="/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia" title="Federated States of Micronesia">Micronesia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palau" title="Palau">Palau</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Formosa" title="Spanish Formosa">Northern Taiwan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tidore" title="Tidore">Tidore</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Africa" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Africa</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Guinea" title="Spanish Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</a></li> <li>Northern Africa (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_Sahara" title="Spanish Sahara">Western Sahara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spanish_protectorate_in_Morocco" title="Spanish protectorate in Morocco">Spanish Morocco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Tripoli" title="Spanish Tripoli">Tripoli</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tunis#Spanish_occupation_and_Ottoman_control" title="Tunis">Tunis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pe%C3%B1%C3%B3n_of_Algiers" title="Peñón of Algiers">Peñón of Algiers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oran#Spanish_period_(1509–1708,_1732–1792)" title="Oran">Oran</a>, <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9ja%C3%AFa#Muslim_and_feudal_rulers" title="Béjaïa">Béjaïa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ifni" title="Ifni">Ifni</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cape_Juby" title="Cape Juby">Cape Juby</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Antarctica" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Antarctica</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terra_Australis,_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Terra Australis, Spain">Terra Australis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><div id="Administration" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Administration</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;">Organization</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ayuntamiento" title="Ayuntamiento">Ayuntamiento</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabildo_(council)" title="Cabildo (council)">Cabildo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Council_of_the_Indies" title="Council of the Indies">Council of the Indies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germania_(guild)" title="Germania (guild)">Germania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Hermandad" title="Santa Hermandad">Santa Hermandad</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;">Law</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Exequatur" title="Exequatur">Exequatur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laws_of_the_Indies" title="Laws of the Indies">Laws of the Indies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papal_bull" title="Papal bull">Papal bull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Decree_of_Graces_of_1815" title="Royal Decree of Graces of 1815">Royal Decree of Graces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/School_of_Salamanca" title="School of Salamanca">School of Salamanca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trial_of_residence" title="Trial of residence">Trial of residence</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;">Titles and positions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alcalde" title="Alcalde">Alcalde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corregidor_(position)" title="Corregidor (position)">Corregidor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipal_president" title="Municipal president">Municipal president</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regidor" title="Regidor">Regidor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syndic" title="Syndic">Syndic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vecino" title="Vecino">Vecino</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><div id="Administrative_subdivisions" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Administrative subdivisions</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;"><a href="/wiki/Viceroy#In_the_Americas" title="Viceroy">Viceroyalties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Columbian_Viceroyalty" title="Columbian Viceroyalty">Columbian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Viceroyalty of New Spain">New Spain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Granada" title="Viceroyalty of New Granada">New Granada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_Peru" title="Viceroyalty of Peru">Perú</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata" title="Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata">Río de la Plata</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;"><a href="/wiki/Captaincies_of_the_Spanish_Empire" title="Captaincies of the Spanish Empire">Captaincies General</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Chile" title="Captaincy General of Chile">Chile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Cuba" title="Captaincy General of Cuba">Cuba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Guatemala" title="Captaincy General of Guatemala">Guatemala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_the_Philippines" title="Captaincy General of the Philippines">Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Provincias_Internas" title="Provincias Internas">Provincias Internas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Captaincy General of Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Santo_Domingo" title="Captaincy General of Santo Domingo">Santo Domingo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Venezuela" title="Captaincy General of Venezuela">Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Yucat%C3%A1n" title="Captaincy General of Yucatán">Yucatán</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;"><a href="/wiki/Governorates_of_the_Spanish_Empire" title="Governorates of the Spanish Empire">Governorates</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Castilla_de_Oro" title="Castilla de Oro">Castilla de Oro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorate_of_Cuba" title="Governorate of Cuba">Cuba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Florida" title="Spanish Florida">La Florida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisiana_(New_Spain)" title="Louisiana (New Spain)">La Luisiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorate_of_New_Andalusia_(1501%E2%80%931513)" title="Governorate of New Andalusia (1501–1513)">New Andalusia (1501–1513)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorate_of_New_Andalusia" title="Governorate of New Andalusia">New Andalusia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorate_of_New_Castile" title="Governorate of New Castile">New Castile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Navarre" title="New Navarre">New Navarre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Spain" title="New Spain">New Spain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorate_of_New_Toledo" title="Governorate of New Toledo">New Toledo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorate_of_Paraguay" title="Governorate of Paraguay">Paraguay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorate_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata" title="Governorate of the Río de la Plata">Río de la Plata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorate_of_Terra_Australis" title="Governorate of Terra Australis">Terra Australis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;"><a href="/wiki/Real_Audiencia" title="Real Audiencia">Audiencias</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Kingdom_of_Granada" title="New Kingdom of Granada">Bogotá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Audiencia_of_Buenos_Aires" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Audiencia of Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Venezuela" title="Captaincy General of Venezuela">Caracas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Charcas" title="Real Audiencia of Charcas">Charcas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Concepci%C3%B3n" title="Real Audiencia of Concepción">Concepción</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Cusco" class="mw-redirect" title="Real Audiencia of Cusco">Cusco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Audiencia_of_Guadalajara" title="Royal Audiencia of Guadalajara">Guadalajara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Guatemala" title="Real Audiencia of Guatemala">Guatemala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Lima" title="Real Audiencia of Lima">Lima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Manila" title="Real Audiencia of Manila">Manila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Audiencia_of_Mexico" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Audiencia of Mexico">Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Panama" title="Real Audiencia of Panama">Panamá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Quito" title="Real Audiencia of Quito">Quito</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Santiago" title="Real Audiencia of Santiago">Santiago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Santo_Domingo" title="Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo">Santo Domingo</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><div id="Economy" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Economy</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Currency_of_Spanish_America" title="Currency of Spanish America">Currencies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_dollar" title="Spanish dollar">Dollar (Peso)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_colonial_real" title="Spanish colonial real">Real</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maraved%C3%AD" title="Maravedí">Maravedí</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_escudo" title="Spanish escudo">Escudo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columnarios" class="mw-redirect" title="Columnarios">Columnario</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doubloon" title="Doubloon">Doubloon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Trade</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Manila_galleon" title="Manila galleon">Manila galleon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_treasure_fleet" title="Spanish treasure fleet">Spanish treasure fleet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casa_de_Contrataci%C3%B3n" title="Casa de Contratación">Casa de Contratación</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Road" title="Spanish Road">Spanish Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guipuzcoan_Company_of_Caracas" title="Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas">Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barcelona_Trading_Company" title="Barcelona Trading Company">Barcelona Trading Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Consulate_of_the_Sea" title="Consulate of the Sea">Consulate of the Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camino_Real_de_Tierra_Adentro" title="Camino Real de Tierra Adentro">Camino Real de Tierra Adentro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commerce_Consulate_of_Buenos_Aires" title="Commerce Consulate of Buenos Aires">Commerce Consulate of Buenos Aires</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><div id="Military" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Military</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;">Armies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tercio" title="Tercio">Tercio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Army_of_Flanders" title="Army of Flanders">Army of Flanders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_Company_of_Volunteers_of_Catalonia" title="Free Company of Volunteers of Catalonia">Free Company of Volunteers of Catalonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_auxiliaries" title="Indian auxiliaries">Indian auxiliaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Armada" title="Spanish Armada">Spanish Armada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_line_of_Spain" title="List of ships of the line of Spain">Ships of the line</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royalist_(Spanish_American_independence)" title="Royalist (Spanish American independence)">Royalists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Legion" title="Spanish Legion">Legión</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Army_of_Africa_(Spain)" title="Army of Africa (Spain)">Army of Africa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;">Strategists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fernando_%C3%81lvarez_de_Toledo,_3rd_Duke_of_Alba" title="Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba">Duke of Alba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_de_Leyva,_Duke_of_Terranova" title="Antonio de Leyva, Duke of Terranova">Antonio de Leyva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_de_Goiti" title="Martín de Goiti">Martín de Goiti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfonso_d%27Avalos" title="Alfonso d'Avalos">Alfonso d'Avalos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa_de_Toledo_Osorio,_4th_Marquis_of_Villafranca" class="mw-redirect" title="García de Toledo Osorio, 4th Marquis of Villafranca">García de Toledo Osorio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_Philibert,_Duke_of_Savoy" title="Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy">Duke of Savoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_de_Baz%C3%A1n_the_Elder" title="Álvaro de Bazán the Elder">Álvaro de Bazán the Elder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_of_Austria" title="John of Austria">John of Austria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Bonaventure_de_Longueval,_Count_of_Bucquoy" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy">Charles Bonaventure de Longueval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedro_de_Zubiaur" title="Pedro de Zubiaur">Pedro de Zubiaur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambrogio_Spinola,_1st_Marquis_of_the_Balbases" class="mw-redirect" title="Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases">Ambrosio Spinola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blas_de_Lezo" title="Blas de Lezo">Blas de Lezo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernardo_de_G%C3%A1lvez" title="Bernardo de Gálvez">Bernardo de Gálvez</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;">Mariners</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinz%C3%B3n_brothers" title="Pinzón brothers">Pinzón brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan" title="Ferdinand Magellan">Ferdinand Magellan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Sebasti%C3%A1n_Elcano" title="Juan Sebastián Elcano">Juan Sebastián Elcano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_de_la_Cosa" title="Juan de la Cosa">Juan de la Cosa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Ponce_de_Le%C3%B3n" title="Juan Ponce de León">Juan Ponce de León</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miguel_L%C3%B3pez_de_Legazpi" title="Miguel López de Legazpi">Miguel López de Legazpi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedro_Men%C3%A9ndez_de_Avil%C3%A9s" title="Pedro Menéndez de Avilés">Pedro Menéndez de Avilés</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_de_Ocampo" title="Sebastián de Ocampo">Sebastián de Ocampo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%81lvar_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cabeza_de_Vaca" title="Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca">Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alonso_de_Ojeda" title="Alonso de Ojeda">Alonso de Ojeda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasco_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_de_Balboa" title="Vasco Núñez de Balboa">Vasco Núñez de Balboa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alonso_de_Salazar" title="Alonso de Salazar">Alonso de Salazar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_de_Urdaneta" title="Andrés de Urdaneta">Andrés de Urdaneta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_de_Ulloa" title="Antonio de Ulloa">Antonio de Ulloa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruy_L%C3%B3pez_de_Villalobos" title="Ruy López de Villalobos">Ruy López de Villalobos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diego_Columbus" title="Diego Columbus">Diego Columbus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alonso_de_Ercilla" title="Alonso de Ercilla">Alonso de Ercilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_de_Ovando" title="Nicolás de Ovando">Nicolás de Ovando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_de_Ayala" title="Juan de Ayala">Juan de Ayala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_Vizca%C3%ADno" title="Sebastián Vizcaíno">Sebastián Vizcaíno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Fern%C3%A1ndez_(explorer)" title="Juan Fernández (explorer)">Juan Fernández</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luis_Fajardo_y_Ru%C3%ADz_de_Avenda%C3%B1o" class="mw-redirect" title="Luis Fajardo y Ruíz de Avendaño">Luis Fajardo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felipe_Gonz%C3%A1lez_de_Ahedo" title="Felipe González de Ahedo">Felipe González de Ahedo</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;"><a href="/wiki/Conquistador" title="Conquistador">Conquistadors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s" title="Hernán Cortés">Hernán Cortés</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francisco_Pizarro" title="Francisco Pizarro">Francisco Pizarro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gonzalo_Jim%C3%A9nez_de_Quesada" title="Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada">Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_P%C3%A9rez_de_Quesada" title="Hernán Pérez de Quesada">Hernán Pérez de Quesada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francisco_V%C3%A1zquez_de_Coronado" title="Francisco Vázquez de Coronado">Francisco Vázquez de Coronado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez_de_Cu%C3%A9llar" title="Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar">Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedro_de_Valdivia" title="Pedro de Valdivia">Pedro de Valdivia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaspar_de_Portol%C3%A0" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaspar de Portolà">Gaspar de Portolà</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pere_Fages_i_Beleta" class="mw-redirect" title="Pere Fages i Beleta">Pere Fages i Beleta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Orp%C3%AD" title="Joan Orpí">Joan Orpí</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedro_de_Alvarado" title="Pedro de Alvarado">Pedro de Alvarado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_de_Urs%C3%BAa" title="Martín de Ursúa">Martín de Ursúa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diego_de_Almagro" title="Diego de Almagro">Diego de Almagro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P%C3%A1nfilo_de_Narv%C3%A1ez" title="Pánfilo de Narváez">Pánfilo de Narváez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diego_de_Mazariegos" title="Diego de Mazariegos">Diego de Mazariegos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jer%C3%B3nimo_Luis_de_Cabrera" title="Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera">Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pere_d%27Albern%C3%AD_i_Teixidor" class="mw-redirect" title="Pere d'Alberní i Teixidor">Pere d'Alberní i Teixidor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa_L%C3%B3pez_de_C%C3%A1rdenas" title="García López de Cárdenas">García López de Cárdenas</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;">Notable battles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Old World</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Won</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Comuneros" title="Revolt of the Comuneros">Comuneros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bicocca" title="Battle of Bicocca">Bicocca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(1527)" title="Sack of Rome (1527)">Rome (1527)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Landriano" title="Battle of Landriano">Landriano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pavia" title="Battle of Pavia">Pavia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conquest_of_Tunis_(1535)" title="Conquest of Tunis (1535)">Tunis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_M%C3%BChlberg" title="Battle of Mühlberg">Mühlberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_St._Quentin_(1557)" title="Battle of St. Quentin (1557)">St. Quentin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gravelines_(1558)" title="Battle of Gravelines (1558)">Gravelines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Malta" title="Great Siege of Malta">Malta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto" title="Battle of Lepanto">Lepanto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Antwerp" title="Fall of Antwerp">Antwerp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ponta_Delgada" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Ponta Delgada">Azores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Mons_(1572)" title="Siege of Mons (1572)">Mons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gembloux_(1578)" title="Battle of Gembloux (1578)">Gembloux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Ostend" title="Siege of Ostend">Ostend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_Armada" title="English Armada">English Armada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Celidonia" title="Battle of Cape Celidonia">Cape Celidonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_White_Mountain" title="Battle of White Mountain">White Mountain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Breda_(1624)" title="Siege of Breda (1624)">Breda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_N%C3%B6rdlingen_(1634)" title="Battle of Nördlingen (1634)">Nördlingen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Valenciennes_(1656)" title="Battle of Valenciennes (1656)">Valenciennes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sieges_of_Ceuta_(1694%E2%80%931727)" title="Sieges of Ceuta (1694–1727)">Ceuta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bitonto" title="Battle of Bitonto">Bitonto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bail%C3%A9n" title="Battle of Bailén">Bailén</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Vitoria" title="Battle of Vitoria">Vitoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_T%C3%A9touan" title="Battle of Tétouan">Tetouan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alhucemas_landing" title="Alhucemas landing">Alhucemas</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lost</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Capo_d%27Orso" title="Battle of Capo d'Orso">Capo d'Orso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Vienna_(1529)" title="Siege of Vienna (1529)">Vienna (1529)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Preveza" title="Battle of Preveza">Preveza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Castelnuovo" title="Siege of Castelnuovo">Siege of Castelnuovo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Algiers_expedition_(1541)" title="Algiers expedition (1541)">Algiers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ceresole" title="Battle of Ceresole">Ceresole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_invasion_of_the_Balearic_Islands_(1558)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottoman invasion of the Balearic Islands (1558)">Balearic Islands (1558)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Djerba" title="Battle of Djerba">Djerba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conquest_of_Tunis_(1574)" title="Conquest of Tunis (1574)">Tunis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Armada" title="Spanish Armada">Spanish Armada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Leiden" title="Siege of Leiden">Leiden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rocroi" title="Battle of Rocroi">Rocroi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Downs" title="Battle of the Downs">Downs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Montes_Claros" title="Battle of Montes Claros">Montes Claros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Passaro" title="Battle of Cape Passaro">Passaro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_Bay" title="Battle of Manila Bay">Manila Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar" title="Battle of Trafalgar">Trafalgar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Somosierra" title="Battle of Somosierra">Somosierra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Annual" title="Battle of Annual">Annual</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mactan" title="Battle of Mactan">Mactan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">New World</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Won</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Tenochtitlan" title="Fall of Tenochtitlan">Tenochtitlan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cajamarca" title="Battle of Cajamarca">Cajamarca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Cusco" title="Siege of Cusco">Cusco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Muisca" title="Spanish conquest of the Muisca">Bogotá savanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Penco" title="Battle of Penco">Penco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mataquito" title="Battle of Mataquito">Mataquito</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Guadalupe_Island_(1595)" title="Battle of Guadalupe Island (1595)">Guadalupe Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Recife_(1595)" title="Capture of Recife (1595)">Recife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_San_Juan_(1595)" title="Battle of San Juan (1595)">San Juan (1595)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Recapture_of_Bahia" title="Recapture of Bahia">Bahia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Colonia_del_Sacramento" title="Siege of Colonia del Sacramento">Colonia del Sacramento</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Comuneros_(Paraguay)" title="Revolt of the Comuneros (Paraguay)">Comuneros (Paraguay)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cartagena_de_Indias" title="Battle of Cartagena de Indias">Cartagena de Indias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuerno_Verde" title="Cuerno Verde">Cuerno Verde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rebellion_of_T%C3%BApac_Amaru_II" title="Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II">Túpac Amaru II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T%C3%BApac_Katari" title="Túpac Katari">Túpac Katari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Pensacola" title="Siege of Pensacola">Pensacola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newfoundland_expedition" title="Newfoundland expedition">Newfoundland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_San_Juan_(1797)" title="Battle of San Juan (1797)">San Juan (1797)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lost</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/La_Noche_Triste" title="La Noche Triste">La Noche Triste</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iguape_War" title="Iguape War">Iguape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tucapel" title="Battle of Tucapel">Tucapel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raleigh%27s_El_Dorado_Expedition" class="mw-redirect" title="Raleigh's El Dorado Expedition">Guiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Curalaba" title="Battle of Curalaba">Curalaba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Comuneros_(New_Granada)" title="Revolt of the Comuneros (New Granada)">Comuneros (New Granada)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Trinidad_(1797)" title="Invasion of Trinidad (1797)">Trinidad (1797)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Chacabuco" title="Battle of Chacabuco">Chacabuco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Boyac%C3%A1" title="Battle of Boyacá">Boyacá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Carabobo" title="Battle of Carabobo">Carabobo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pichincha" title="Battle of Pichincha">Pichincha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ayacucho" title="Battle of Ayacucho">Ayacucho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Guam" title="Capture of Guam">Guam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Santiago_de_Cuba" title="Battle of Santiago de Cuba">Santiago de Cuba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rican_Campaign#Battle_of_Asomante" class="mw-redirect" title="Puerto Rican Campaign">Asomante</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><div id="Spanish_conquests" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Spanish conquests</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="Conquest of the Canary Islands">Canary Islands</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Americas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_Empire" title="Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire">Aztec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Maya" title="Spanish conquest of the Maya">Maya</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Chiapas" title="Spanish conquest of Chiapas">Chiapas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Yucat%C3%A1n" title="Spanish conquest of Yucatán">Yucatán</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Guatemala" title="Spanish conquest of Guatemala">Guatemala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Pet%C3%A9n" title="Spanish conquest of Petén">Petén</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_El_Salvador" title="Spanish conquest of El Salvador">El Salvador</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Honduras" title="Spanish conquest of Honduras">Honduras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Nicaragua" title="Spanish conquest of 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href="/wiki/French_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="French colonization of the Americas">French colonization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decolonization_of_the_Americas" title="Decolonization of the Americas">Decolonization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_American_integration" title="Latin American integration">Latin American integration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Depression_in_Latin_America" title="Great Depression in Latin America">Great Depression</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_America_during_World_War_II" title="Latin America during World War II">World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_American_debt_crisis" title="Latin American debt crisis">Debt crisis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.5em;padding-left:0.5em; padding-right:0.5em; font-weight:normal;">By topic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.5em;padding-left:0.5em; padding-right:0.5em; font-weight:normal;">Foreign relations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93Latin_America_relations" title="Australia–Latin America relations">Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Latin_America_relations" title="Canada–Latin America relations">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/China%E2%80%93Latin_America_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="China–Latin America relations">China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/India%E2%80%93Latin_America_relations" title="India–Latin America relations">India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ireland%E2%80%93Latin_America_relations" title="Ireland–Latin America relations">Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italy%E2%80%93Latin_America_Conference" title="Italy–Latin America Conference">Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Latin_America_relations" title="Japan–Latin America relations">Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_America_and_the_League_of_Nations" title="Latin America and the League of Nations">League of Nations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Korea%E2%80%93Latin_America_relations" title="South Korea–Latin America relations">South Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_America%E2%80%93United_Kingdom_relations" title="Latin America–United Kingdom relations">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_America%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="Latin America–United States relations">United States</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Geography</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" 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wave">Conservative wave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_American_drug_legalization" title="Latin American drug legalization">Drug legalization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falangism_in_Latin_America" title="Falangism in Latin America">Falangism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_American_involvement_in_international_peacekeeping" title="Latin American involvement in international peacekeeping">International peacekeeping</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberalism_and_conservatism_in_Latin_America" title="Liberalism and conservatism in Latin America">Liberalism and conservatism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pink_tide" title="Pink tide">Pink tide</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Latin_American_economy" title="Latin American economy">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table 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studies</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etiquette_in_Latin_America" title="Etiquette in Latin America">Etiquette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feminism_in_Latin_America" title="Feminism in Latin America">Feminism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Latin_America" title="HIV/AIDS in Latin America">HIV/AIDS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_Latin_America" title="Race and ethnicity in Latin America">Race and ethnicity</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Latin_America" title="Culture of Latin America">Culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Latin_American_art" title="Latin American art">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_American_cinema" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin American cinema">Cinema</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Latin_American_films" title="List of Latin American films">Films</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_American_cuisine" title="Latin American cuisine">Cuisine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_dance" title="Latin dance">Dance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_American_literature" title="Latin American literature">Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Media_of_Latin_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Media of Latin America">Media</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Latin_America" title="Music of Latin America">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Latin_America" title="Religion in Latin America">Religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Television_in_Latin_America" title="Television in Latin America">Television</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_broadcasting_companies_in_Latin_America" title="List of broadcasting companies in Latin America">Companies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telenovela" title="Telenovela">Telenovela</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Video_games_in_Latin_America" title="Video games in Latin America">Video games</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Latin_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Demographics of Latin America">Demographics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Latin_American_countries_by_population" title="List of Latin American countries by population">Countries by population</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Latin_American_cities_by_population" title="List of Latin American cities by population">Cities</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_the_Bahamas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of the Bahamas (page does not exist)">Bahamas</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Barbados&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Barbados (page does not exist)">Barbados</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Belize&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Belize (page does not exist)">Belize</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Bolivia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Bolivia (page does not exist)">Bolivia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Brazil&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Brazil (page does not exist)">Brazil</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Canada&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Canada (page does not exist)">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Chile&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Chile (page does not exist)">Chile</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Colombia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Colombia (page does not exist)">Colombia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Costa_Rica&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Costa Rica (page does not exist)">Costa Rica</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Cuba&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Cuba (page does not exist)">Cuba</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Dominica&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Dominica (page does not exist)">Dominica</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_the_Dominican_Republic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of the Dominican Republic (page does not exist)">Dominican Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Ecuador&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Ecuador (page does not exist)">Ecuador</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_El_Salvador&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of El Salvador (page does not exist)">El Salvador</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Grenada&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Grenada (page does not exist)">Grenada</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Guatemala&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Guatemala (page does not exist)">Guatemala</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Guyana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Guyana (page does not exist)">Guyana</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Haiti&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Haiti (page does not exist)">Haiti</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Honduras&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Honduras (page does not exist)">Honduras</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Jamaica&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Jamaica (page does not exist)">Jamaica</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Mexico&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Mexico (page does not exist)">Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Nicaragua&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Nicaragua (page does not exist)">Nicaragua</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Panama&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Panama (page does not exist)">Panama</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Paraguay&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Paraguay (page does not exist)">Paraguay</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Peru&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Peru (page does not exist)">Peru</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Saint Kitts and Nevis (page does not exist)">Saint Kitts and Nevis</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Saint_Lucia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Saint Lucia (page does not exist)">Saint Lucia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (page does not exist)">Saint Vincent and the Grenadines</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Suriname&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Suriname (page does not exist)">Suriname</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Trinidad and Tobago (page does not exist)">Trinidad and Tobago</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_the_United_States&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of the United States (page does not exist)">United States</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Uruguay&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Uruguay (page does not exist)">Uruguay</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Venezuela&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Venezuela (page does not exist)">Venezuela</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="2" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Americas" title="Americas"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Americas_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg/100px-Americas_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Americas_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg/150px-Americas_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Americas_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg/200px-Americas_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="550" data-file-height="550" 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title="Spanish colonization of Bonaire (page does not exist)">Bonaire</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_the_British_Virgin_Islands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of the British Virgin Islands (page does not exist)">British Virgin Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_the_Cayman_Islands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of the Cayman Islands (page does not exist)">Cayman Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_Cura%C3%A7ao&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of Curaçao (page does not exist)">Curaçao</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_colonization_of_the_Falkland_Islands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish colonization of the Falkland Islands (page does not exist)">Falkland Islands</a></li> <li><a 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