The Department of Amazonas (Spanish: Departamento de Amazonas) was a department of North Peru, a constituent country of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation, which existed from 1836 to 1839. Created alongside the confederate state, its capital was Chachapoyas.
| Department of Amazonas Departamento de Amazonas | |||||||||
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| Department of North Peru | |||||||||
| 1836–1839 | |||||||||
 Coat of arms
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 Amazonas within North Peru | |||||||||
| Capital | Chachapoyas | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| Prefect | |||||||||
• 1836–1839 | Damián Najar | ||||||||
| Historical era | Confederation | ||||||||
• Established | 1836 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1839 | ||||||||
| Contained within | |||||||||
| • Constituent country | North Peru | ||||||||
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History
editAmazonas sent deputies to the Assembly of Huaura in August 1836,[1] where the Constitution of the Northern Peruvian State was drafted under the guidance of the then rebel president Luis José de Orbegoso y Moncada in the midst of the Peruvian civil war since 1835.[1] The constitution proclaimed the North-Peruvian State and the alliance with the Bolivian occupation forces for the creation of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation.[2]
With the victory of Orbegoso, the Fundamental Law of 1837 in Tacna, with approval of the self-proclaimed supreme protector Andrés de Santa Cruz, recognized Amazonas as a founding department of the Confederation.[2] Its sole representative, with the title of prefect, was Damián Nájar, who had previously acted as the governor of Maynas, as well as military commander of the same area.[3] Nájar, originally from Guayaquil,[4] was also elected deputy for Congress, alongside José Modesto Vega and Manuel Castro.[1]
Amazonas was subject to the General Government, its governor was appointed by the president of the State, and this in turn was appointed by the supreme protector on duty.[1] The governor was obliged to elect representatives of his department to participate in the Huaura assemblies, which were ordered by the president of the northern Peruvian State.[1][2] Amazonas also had deputies in the Congress of the Confederation as part of the North-Peruvian parliamentary group.[1]
The department was part of Luis José de Orbegoso's secessionist Peruvian Republic, declared in 1838.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f "Constitución del Estado Nor-Peruano" (PDF). Congreso de la República. 1836-08-06.
- ^ a b c "Ley Fundamental de la Confederación Perú-Boliviana" (PDF). Congreso de la República. 1837-05-01.
- ^ Denegri Luna, Félix (1996). Perú y Ecuador: apuntes para la historia de una frontera (in Spanish). Lima: Bolsa de Valores de Lima. p. 155.
- ^ Palma, Ricardo. "Origen de una industria" [Origin of an industry]. Tradiciones peruanas. Vol. 6th. Buenos Aires: Librería Internacional del Perú, Imprenta López.