United States of Colombia ( Spanish Estados Unidos de Colombia ) - a state in Central and South America, which existed in the second half of the XIX century.
| Historical State | |||||
| United States of Colombia | |||||
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| Estados Unidos de Colombia | |||||
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 United States of Colombia in 1863 | |||||
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| Capital | Bogota | ||||
| Languages) | Spanish | ||||
| Religion | Secular state | ||||
| Currency unit | Colombian Peso | ||||
| Form of government | Republic | ||||
History
In 1860, a civil war broke out in the Granada Confederation , caused by discontent of liberal politicians with the attempts of conservatives to curtail the rights of territories and to strengthen centralized power. In 1862, a prominent liberal, ex-president of New Granada, General Thomas Cipriano de Mosquero, arrested the president of the confederation, declared himself president, transferred the capital to Bogota, and appointed a provisional government, and renamed the Granada confederation to the United States of New Granada ( Spanish Estados Unidos de Nueva Granada ). In 1863, in order to give a legal basis to the end of the civil war, a new Constitution was adopted at a conference in Rionegro , according to which the country was transformed into the United States of Colombia .
The restrictions of the political and military power of the central government imposed by the new Constitution led to the fact that in the following years about 40 civil wars of a local character and one nationwide occurred (in 1876-1877).
In 1886, under pressure from President Rafael Núñez , a new Constitution was adopted in the country, which turned the state union into a centralized Republic of Colombia .