Alto Perú

E729223

Alto Perú was the colonial-era region in the central Andes that roughly corresponds to modern-day Bolivia and was a key mining and administrative center of the Spanish Empire in South America.

All labels observed (3)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf former Spanish colonial territory
historical region
administrativeCenterFor mining districts of Potosí
capital Charcas
Chuquisaca
colonialAdministration Real Audiencia de Charcas
conflict Latin American wars of independence
continent South America
currencyUsed Spanish colonial real
linked to: Spanish real
economyBasedOn agriculture
silver extraction
textile production
existedFrom 16th century
existedUntil early 19th century
governedAs audiencia of Charcas
governedBy Spanish Crown
linked to: Crown of Spain
includedRegion Altiplano
linked to: Altiplano plateau

Upper Paraguay basin
independenceMovementResult creation of Bolivia in 1825
knownFor Potosí silver mines
linked to: Potosí

indigenous labor exploitation
mita labor system
silver mining
languageUsed Aymara
Quechua
Spanish
laterMetropolitanAuthority Buenos Aires
locatedIn central Andes
linked to: Central Andes
mainMetropolitanAuthority Lima
majorCity Cochabamba
La Paz
Oruro
Potosí
nameMeaning Upper Peru
partOf Spanish Empire
Viceroyalty of Peru
Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
predecessor Inca Empire territories in the central Andes
relatedEthnicGroup Aymara peoples
linked to: Aymara people

Quechua peoples
linked to: Quechua people
religion Roman Catholicism
roughlyCorrespondsTo Bolivia
sovereignState Spanish Empire
strategicImportance key mining center of Spanish America
link between Lima and Río de la Plata
successor Republic of Bolivia
linked to: Bolivia
timePeriod colonial era

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pedro Antonio Olañeta activeInPlace Alto Perú (modern Bolivia)
linked to: Alto Perú
Cornelio Zelaya operationalArea Alto Perú
Junta Grande hasTerritory Upper Peru (partially controlled)
linked to: Alto Perú