13 Facts About Gran Colombia

Gran Colombia, or Greater Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, was a state that encompassed much of northern South America and part of southern Central America from 1819 to 1831.

At the time of its creation, this Gran Colombia was the most prestigious country in Spanish America.

Gran Colombia was proclaimed through the Fundamental Law of the Republic of Colombia, issued during the Congress of Angostura, but did not come into being until the Congress of Cucuta promulgated the Constitution of Cucuta.

Gran Colombia was dissolved in 1831 due to the political differences that existed between supporters of federalism and centralism, as well as regional tensions among the peoples that made up the republic.

Since Gran Colombia's territory corresponded more or less to the original jurisdiction of the former Viceroyalty of New Granada, it claimed the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, the Mosquito Coast, as well as most of Esequiba.

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Gran Colombia'storians have adopted the term "Gran Colombia" to distinguish this republic from the present-day Republic of Colombia, which began using the name in 1863, although many use Colombia where the confusion would not arise.

Name "Gran Colombia" comes from the Spanish version of the eighteenth-century New Latin word "Columbia", itself based on the name of Christopher Columbus.

Gran Colombia used an improvised, quasi-Greek adjectival version of the name, "Colombia", to mean papers and things "relating to Colombia", as the title of the archive of his revolutionary activities.

Republic of Colombia comprised more or less the former territories of the Viceroyalty of New Granada, which it claimed under the legal principle of uti possidetis.

That year Gran Colombia became the first Spanish American republic recognized by the United States, due to the efforts of diplomat Manuel Torres.

In Peru, the dissolution of Gran Colombia is seen as a country ceasing to exist, giving way to the formation of new nation-states.

The significance of this view is that the treaties Peru had signed with Gran Colombia became void when the countersignatory ceased to exist.

Question of the status of treaties and accords dating to the revolutionary period and Gran Colombia period has a profound effect on international relations to the present day.