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Created in 1542 , the Viceroyalty of Peru (in Spanish , ''Virreinato del Perú'') was a Spanish colonial administrative district. It originally contained most of Spanish -ruled South America , until its impossibly large size dictated that other Viceroyalites be split from it to facilitate governance. The viceroyalty officially lasted until 1824 , when the last viceroy, José De La Serna E Hinojosa , surrendered to Simon Bolivar after the Battle Of Ayacucho . The Viceroyalty of Peru was divided into '' Audiencia s'', or provincial administrations. Each of these was governed by a president and included the following (with its date of creation):
With the creation of the Viceroyalty Of New Granada (now Colombia , Ecuador , Panama and Venezuela ) in 1717 , the Audiencias of Panama, Santa Fe de Bogota, and Quito were detatched; with the establishment of the Viceroyalty Of The Río De La Plata (now Argentina , Bolivia , Paraguay and Uruguay ) in 1776 , the Audiencia of Buenos Aires was similarly lost. |