Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata

Overview

The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata or Viceroyalty of the River Plate was the last to be organised and also the shortest-lived viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It was established in 1776 from several former Viceroyalty of Peru dependencies that mainly extended over the Río de la Plata Basin, roughly the present-day territories of Argentina, northern Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, extending inland from the Atlantic Coast. The colony of Spanish Guinea also depended administratively on the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires, located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata estuary flowing into the Atlantic Ocean, opposite the Portuguese outpost of Colonia del Sacramento, was chosen as the capital.

Wikipedia: Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

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
• SNAPSHOT1783
• POLITY TYPEstate

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

• American Indian Wars1500–1800
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• Napoleonic Wars1803–15
  World-changing · 3.5M dead
• French Revolutionary Wars1792–1802
  World-changing · 1.5M dead
• French Invasion of Russia1812
  World-changing · 1.0M dead
• War of the Sixth Coalition1812–14
  World-changing · 500K dead
• Túpac Amaru II Rebellion1780–83
  World-changing · 100K dead