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| Intendancy of Paraguay Intendencia del Paraguay (Spanish) | |||||||||
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| Intendancy of theKingdom of Spain | |||||||||
| 1782–1811 | |||||||||
.svg) Flag .svg) Coat of arms | |||||||||
 Map of the Viceroyalty in 1783 | |||||||||
| Capital | Asunción | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1785 | 90,000 | ||||||||
• 1799 | 108,070 | ||||||||
• 1806 | 140,000 | ||||||||
| Status | Intendancy of theViceroyalty of the Río de la Plata within theKingdom of Spain | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Type | Intendancy | ||||||||
| Intendant | |||||||||
• 1782–1787 | P. Melo de Portugal | ||||||||
• 1787-1796 | Joaquín Alós y Bru | ||||||||
• 1796-1806 | L. de Ribera y Espinoza | ||||||||
• 1806-1807 | Bernardo de Velasco | ||||||||
• 1807-1808 | M. Gutiérrez Varona | ||||||||
• 1808-1809 | Eustaquio Giannini | ||||||||
• 1809–1811 | Bernardo de Velasco | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 28 January 1782 | ||||||||
| 25 May 1810 | |||||||||
| 19 January 1811 | |||||||||
| 14 May 1811 | |||||||||
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TheIntendancy of Paraguay (Spanish:Intendencia del Paraguay), also known as theIntendancy of Asunción (Spanish:Intendencia de Asunción) was an administrative-territorial unit that was part of theViceroyalty of Rio de la Plata. It was created on 28 January 1782 and came to an end after theMay 1811 Revolution.
Until 1776, the whole of Southern Spanish America was ruled by theViceroy of Peru inLima.
Because of the vastness of its territory, the Viceroyalty of Peru was subdivided in several Governates, with its own Governor.Two of these Governates were theGovernorate of the Río de la Plata and theGovernorate of Paraguay.
In 1776, it was decided to split the Viceroyalty of Peru in two, and to create a newViceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, which included these two former governates, along with other dependencies that mainly extended over the Río de la Plata Basin, roughly the present-day territories of Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay.
As subdivision of the newViceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, the Intendancy of Paraguay was created on 28 January 1782, which covered the same territory as the Governate of Paraguay, on both sides of the Paraguay River and also part of the formerGuarani Missions.
The political body that controlled the government of the intendancy was the Intendant Governor (Spanish:Gobernador intendente).The only city and capital of the Intendancy wasAsunción, and territorially it was divided into 4 districts:Concepción,Curuguaty,Villarrica andSan Pedro de Ycuamandiyú.
The Intendancy of Paraguay existed until 1811, when the last Intendant governor, Bernardo de Velasco, was overthrown by a group of revolutionaries, marking the end of Spanish rule in these lands and marking the beginning of the events leading to theIndependence of Paraguay.
