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The Department of Ayacucho (Spanish: Departamento de Ayacucho) was a department of South Peru, a constituent country of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation, which existed from 1836 to 1839. Created alongside the confederate state, its capital was Ayacucho.
| Department of Ayacucho Departamento de Ayacucho | |||||||||
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| Department of South Peru | |||||||||
| 1836–1839 | |||||||||
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 Ayacucho within South Peru | |||||||||
| Capital | Ayacucho | ||||||||
| Historical era | Confederation | ||||||||
• Established | 1836 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1839 | ||||||||
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| • Constituent country | South Peru | ||||||||
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Ayacucho sent deputies to the Sicuani Assembly of March 1836,[1] where the Constitution of the Southern Peruvian State was drafted under the guidance of the then rebel politician Nicolás Fernández de Piérola y Flores [es] in the midst of the Peruvian civil war since 1835.[1] The constitution proclaimed the state of South Peru and the alliance with the Bolivian occupation forces for the creation of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation.[2]
With Piérola's victory, the Fundamental Law of 1837 in Tacna, with approval of the self-proclaimed supreme protector Andrés de Santa Cruz, recognized Ayacucho as a founding department of the Confederation.[2] Ayacucho also had deputies in Congress as part of the South Peruvian parliamentary group.[1]
Ayacucho 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.[2] The governor was obliged to elect representatives of his department to participate in the assemblies of Sicuani, which were ordered by the president of the South Peruvian State.[2]
- ^ a b c "Constitución del Estado Sud-Peruano (1836)" (PDF). Congreso de la República.
- ^ a b c d "Ley Fundamental de la Confederación Perú-Boliviana" (PDF). Congreso de la República. 1837-05-01.