The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata or Viceroyalty of the River Plate was the last to be organised and also the shortest-lived viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It was established
William Beresford surrendering to Santiago de Liniers during the British Invasions to the Río de la Plata.
Picture of Pedro Domingo Murillo, main leader of the La Paz Revolution.
Pedro de Cevallos
Portrait of José de Gálvez
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The Viceroyalty of Peru, officially known as the Kingdom of Peru, was a Spanish imperial provincial administrative district. Created in 1542, it encompassed modern Peru and most of the Spanish Empire
Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
…the last to be organised and also the shortest-lived viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It was established in 1776 from several former Viceroyalty of Peru dependencies that mainly extended over the Río de la Plata Basin, roughly the present-day territories of Argentina, northern Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay…
Francisco Pizarro meets the Inca emperor Atahualpa in 1532.
Viceroy Francisco de Toledo
First image of the Cerro Rico mine in Potosí to reach Europe, by Pedro Cieza de León in 1552.
The "City of Kings" ,with the Cathedral of Lima under construction, and Plaza Mayor. Painting from 1680, Museo de América.