Colombian War of Independence

Colombian War of Independence
	Part of the Atlantic Revolutions, Spanish American wars of independence, Decolonization of the Americas and Napoleonic Wars
	; From left to right and top to bottom: Battle of Calibío, Battle of Juanambú, Battle of the Palo River, Siege of Cartagena 1815, Battle of Boyacá and Congress of Cúcuta.
Date	July 20, 1810 – April 2, 1825
Location	Northern South America, Andean South America, the Caribbean, Central America, Florida
Result	Colombian and Allied victory Creation of the Republic of Colombia ; Creation of the republics of Peru and Bolivia ; End of the Spanish political presence in South America ;
Territorial; changes	Spain cedes New Granada to the Republic of Colombia
Belligerents
Republic of Colombia (from 1819); New Granadine Patriots (1816–1819); United Provinces of New Granada (1811-1816); Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca (1811–1815); Supreme Governing Junta of Santa Fe in New Granada (1810); First Republic of Venezuela (1811–1812); Second Republic of Venezuela (1813–1814); Third Republic of Venezuela (1817–1819); Supported by: United Kingdom; Haiti;	Bourbon Kingdom of Spain (from 1813); and its territories: Viceroyalty of New Granada ; Viceroyalty of Peru ; Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata ; Viceroyalty of New Spain; Napoleonic Kingdom of Spain (1810–1813); Supported by: First French Empire (1810–1813);
Commanders and leaders
Simón Bolívar; Francisco de Paula Santander; Antonio Nariño (POW); Camilo Torres Tenorio ; Antonio Baraya ; Antonio Villavicencio ; José Miguel Pey; José María Córdova; José Prudencio Padilla; José María Cabal ; Manuel del Castillo y Rada ; Manuel Serviez ; Policarpa Salavarrieta ; Manuel de Bernardo Álvarez ; Francisco José de Caldas ; José de Leyva ; Atanasio Girardot †; Antonio Ricaurte †; Juan Nepomuceno Moreno	Fernando VII; Juan de Sámano; Pablo Morillo; Melchor Aymerich; Miguel Tacón y Rosique; José María Barreiro ; Melchor Aymerich; Agustín Agualongo ; Isidro Barrada; Sebastián de la Calzada; Ignacio Asín †
	About 250,000-400,000 deaths in the Independence of Gran Colombia or about 12-20% of the population (1810-1824).

The Colombian Declaration of Independence occurred on July 20, 1810 when the Junta de Santa Fe was formed in Santa Fe de Bogota, the capital of the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Granada, to govern the territory autonomously from Spain. The event inspired similar independence movements across Latin America, and triggered an almost decade-long rebellion culminating in the founding of the Republic of Gran Colombia, which spanned present-day Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela, along with parts of northern Peru and northwestern Brazil.

Although Gran Colombia would ultimately dissolve in 1831, it was for a time among the most powerful countries in the Western Hemisphere, and played an influential role in shaping the political development of other newly sovereign Latin American states. The modern nation-state of Colombia recognizes the event as its national independence day.

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