Upper Peru

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Spanish colonial administrative region former territory historical region

Upper Peru was the colonial-era Spanish administrative region in South America that roughly corresponds to modern-day Bolivia.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Spanish colonial administrative region → former territory → historical region →
administrativeCenter	Audiencia of Charcas →
borderedBy	Lower Peru → Río de la Plata region →
capital	Charcas → Chuquisaca → Sucre →
colonialAdministrationType	audiencia district →
colonialPower	Spain →
continent	South America →
country	Spanish Empire →
currency	Spanish real →
demographics	indigenous majority population →
economy	agriculture → silver mining → textile production →
formerNameOf	territory of modern Bolivia →
geographicalFeature	Altiplano → Andes Mountains →
historicalEra	Early modern period → Spanish colonial period →
indigenousPeoples	Aymara → Quechua →
involvedIn	Spanish American wars of independence →
judicialDivision	Real Audiencia de Charcas →
knownFor	silver mining in Potosí →
language	Spanish →
laterBecame	Republic of Bolivia →
laterCurrency	Bolivian boliviano →
locatedIn	South America →
mainCity	Cochabamba → La Paz → Oruro → Potosí → Santa Cruz de la Sierra →
partOf	Spanish West Indies → Viceroyalty of Peru → Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata →
primaryReligionDuringColonialPeriod	Catholic Church →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
roughlyCorrespondsTo	Bolivia →
sovereignDuringColonialPeriod	Kingdom of Spain →
status	overseas territory of Spain →
successorState	Bolivia →
usedUntil	19th century →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Royal Audiencia of Charcas →	appliesToJurisdiction
United Provinces of the Río de la Plata →	borderedBy
Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata →	containsTerritory
United Provinces of the Río de la Plata ("Upper Peru (partly)") →	includedTerritory
Bolivian War of Independence →	locatedIn
Royal Audiencia of Charcas →	locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
Peruvian War of Independence →	location
Argentine War of Independence →	mainTheater