Empire · approximate1819 – 1831 · 12 years

Gran Colombia

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

Gran Colombia, also known as Greater Colombia and officially the Republic of Colombia, was the Colombian state that encompassed much of northern South America and parts of Central America from 1819 to 1831. It included present-day Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela, parts of northern Peru, northwestern Brazil, and claimed the Essequibo region. The terms Gran Colombia and Greater Colombia are used historiographically to distinguish it from the current Republic of Colombia, which is also the official name of the former state.

Wikipedia: Gran Colombia·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Approximate borders

Dashed borders mark empires whose extent we can date but whose precise frontiers are contested or undocumented.

SOURCEreconstructed from Natural Earth country boundaries
DETAILreconstructed-clipped-country
SNAPSHOT1825
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire2

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Gran Colombia Separation1830–32
Regional · 10K dead
Gran Colombia-Peru War1828–29
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1819 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Gran Colombia (1819 – 1831). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/americas-gran-colombia · Sources & methodology