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Charcas

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Charcas (chär`käs), Spanish colonial audiencia audiencia , royal court of justice in Spain and the Spanish Empire, varying greatly in its form and function but having some administrative as well as judicial capacity. Use of the term also extended to the court's jurisdictional area.
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 and presidency in South America, known also as Upper Peru and Chuquisaca. Charcas roughly corresponded to modern Bolivia but included parts of present Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Paraguay, encompassing a territorial expanse that led to disputes and wars after independence had been won. It was established in 1559 and was attached to the viceroyalty of Peru until joined (1776) to the newly created viceroyalty of La Plata. The prosecutor of Charcas, José de Antequera y Castro, led (1721) the first major creole uprising against viceregal authority. The city of Sucre Sucre, city (1992 pop. 131,769), S central Bolivia, constitutional capital of Bolivia and capital of Chuquisaca dept. Since 1898, La Paz has been the administrative capital of Bolivia.
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 was sometimes called Charcas.


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Estos sitios fueron: ambos flancos del rio Pamplonita y sectores con pastizales y con charcas temporales y permanentes, asi como sectores con remanentes boscosos (Fig.
He was the Hearer of the Audience of Charcas, a position in the government similar to Speaker of the House in British/Canadian parliament.
Today's Bolivia was in 1809 basically the Audiencia and Presidency of Charcas located in the then Chuquisaca, now Sucre (a Bolivian should know this
 
 
 
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