Exhibit
No. 31.1





CERTIFICATION
OF THE PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER


PURSUANT
TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002





I, Robert
D. Baca, certify that:




1. I have
reviewed this Form 10-KSB/A for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007 of Sovereign
Exploration Associates International, Inc.;




2. Based
on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material
fact or omit to state a  material fact necessary to make the
statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements are
made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this
report;




3. Based
on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information
included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial
condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and
for, the periods presented in this report;




4. The
registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing
and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act
Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as
defined in Exchange Act Rules 13-a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and
have:




a)  Designed
such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and
procedures to be designed  under our supervision, to ensure that
material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated
subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly
during the period in which this report is being prepared;




b)
Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and
procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness
of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered
by this report based on such evaluation; and




c)
Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over
financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent fiscal
quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report)
that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the
registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and





5. The
registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most
recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the
registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the small business issuer's
board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent
functions):




a) All
significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of
internal control over financial reporting which are reasonable likely to
adversely affect the small business issuer's ability to record, process,
summarize and report financial information; and




b) Any
fraud, whether or not material, that involved management or other employees who
have a significant rile in the small business issuer's internal control over
financial reporting.






Date: November
      14, 2008
            /s/
      Robert D. Baca
              Robert
      D. Baca
              Chief
      Executive Officer