Captaincy General of Chile

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Spanish colonial administrative division captaincy general former country

The Captaincy General of Chile was a Spanish colonial administrative territory in South America that governed the region corresponding largely to modern-day Chile until its independence.

Aliases (6)

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Spanish colonial administrative division → captaincy general → former country →
administrativeCenter	Santiago de Chile →
borderedBy	Pacific Ocean → Viceroyalty of Peru → Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata →
capital	Santiago →
colonizer	Spain →
commonLanguage	Spanish →
continent	South America →
currency	Spanish real →
demographicGroup	Spaniards → criollos → indigenous peoples → mestizos →
endTime	1818 → 19th century →
establishedBy	Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor → Spanish Crown →
followedBy	Chilean Independence → Patria Vieja →
governmentForm	colonial administration → monarchy →
headOfGovernment	Captain General of Chile →
headOfState	King of Spain →
legalSystem	Castilian law →
militaryRole	frontier of the Spanish Empire in South America →
namedAfter	Chile →
officeHolder	Ambrosio O'Higgins → Bernardo O'Higgins → García Hurtado de Mendoza → Pedro de Valdivia →
officialReligion	Catholic Church →
partOf	Spanish Empire → Viceroyalty of Peru →
presentIn	Antarctica → Argentina → Bolivia → Chile →
primaryEconomicActivity	agriculture → cattle ranching → mining →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
replacedBy	Republic of Chile →
significantEvent	Arauco War → Chilean War of Independence → Destruction of the Seven Cities → Mapuche uprisings →
startTime	1541 → 16th century →

Referenced by (21)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Chilean War of Independence → First Government Junta of Chile → Royal University of San Felipe →	locatedIn
Pedro de Valdivia ("Royal Governor of Chile") → Pedro de Valdivia ("Captain General of Chile") →	positionHeld
Second Government Junta of Chile →	appliesToTerritorialJurisdiction
Bernardo O'Higgins →	birthPlace
Mateo de Toro y Zambrano ("Kingdom of Chile") →	countryOfCitizenship
Joaquín Toesca ("Colonial administration of Chile") →	employer
Mateo de Toro y Zambrano ("late colonial Chile") →	era
Spanish America →	includes
Primera Junta de Gobierno de Chile ("Royal Governor of Chile") →	legalPredecessor
Spanish conquest of Chile →	location
Manuel de Salas →	placeOfBirth
Pedro de Valdivia →	placeOfDeath
Juan Martínez de Rozas →	politicalEntityInvolved
Primera Junta de Gobierno de Chile ("Colonial Government of Chile") →	precededBy
Joaquín Toesca →	regionOfActivity
Royal University of San Felipe →	regionServed
Viceroyalty of Peru →	successor
Primera Junta de Gobierno de Chile →	territory