page_title: New Kingdom of Granada
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: New Kingdom of Granada / History
caption_attribution_description: Map of Terra Firma, made up of the New Kingdom of New Granada, the Royal Audiencies of Panamá and Santa Fe de Bogotá, and Provinces of Santa Marta, Popayan, Venezuela, and Guyana.
context_page_description: The New Kingdom of Granada, or Kingdom of the New Granada, was the name given to a group of 16th-century Spanish colonial provinces in northern South America governed by the president of the Audiencia of Santa Fe, an area corresponding mainly to modern-day Colombia. The conquistadors originally organized it as a captaincy general within the Viceroyalty of Peru. The crown established the audiencia in 1549. Ultimately the kingdom became part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada first in 1717 and permanently in 1739. After several attempts to set up independent states in the 1810s, the kingdom and the viceroyalty ceased to exist altogether in 1819 with the establishment of the United Provinces of New Granada.
caption: Old map of Tierra Firme, showing the initial divisions of the region
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