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Supported by the power of the Creole oligarchy, the Viceroyalty Of Peru became the last redoubt of the Spanish dominion in South America . This Viceroyalty succumbed after the decisive continental campaigns of Simón Bolivar and Jose De San Martin . San Martin , who had displaced the royalists of Chile after the battle of the Andes, and who had disembarked in Paracas in 1819 , proclaimed the '''independence of Peru''' in Lima on July 28 , 1821 . Three years later, the Spanish dominion was eliminated definitively after the battles of Junín and Ayacucho .

The conflict of interests that faced different sectors of the Creole society and the particular ambitions of the , Nicolás De Piérola and Francisco García Calderón could accede to the presidency in the first seventy-five years of independent life. After the splitting of the Alto Peru in 1815 , the Republic Of Bolivia was created. In 1837 , the Peru-Bolivian Confederation was also created but, it was dissolved two years later due to the Chile an military intervention.


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