Guayana Province (1585−1864) was a former province of Spanish

Colonial Venezuela Spanish expeditions led by Columbus and Alonso de Ojeda reached the coast of present-day Venezuela in 1498 and 1499. The first colonial exploitation was of the pearl oysters of the "Pearl Islands". Spain established its first permanent South Ame ...

and independent

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

, located in the Guyana region of northeastern

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. The province was part of the Spanish colonial New Andalusia Province and Captaincy General of Venezuela from 1585 to 1821, and of independent Venezuela from 1821 to 1864.

History

Guayana Province covered a territory roughly equal to the present day country of Guyana and the Venezuelan

Guayana Region The Guayana Region is an administrative region of eastern Venezuela. History In the 1970s, after the process of forming the Political-Administrative Regions through CORDIPLAN in the government of Rafael Caldera, the Region of Guyana was f ...

from 1591 to 1739, when the province's territory was merged into the Spanish Trinidad-Guayana Province, along with

Trinidad Province The Province of Trinidad (1525–1802) was a province of the Spanish Empire which was created in 1525. From 1591 to 1731 it was merged with Guayana Province, as Trinidad-Guayana Province. It was lost to the British in 1797, a loss recognised by t ...

(present day

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). Amazonas is named after the Amazon River, and was formerly part of the Spanish

Viceroyalty of Peru The Viceroyalty of Peru ( es, Virreinato del Perú, links=no) was a Spanish imperial provincial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained modern-day Peru and most of the Spanish Empire in South America, governed fro ...

, a region called Spanish Guyana. It was settled by the Portuguese in the early 18th century and incorporated into the

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after the Treaty of Madrid in 1750. It became a state of the Brazilian Republic in 1889. Guayana Province was within the Spanish colonial New Andalusia Province from its establishment in 1585 to 1776, when it was incorporated into the new Captaincy General of Venezuela. It was also within the larger jurisdiction of the

Viceroyalty of New Granada The Viceroyalty of New Granada ( es, Virreinato de Nueva Granada, links=no ) also called Viceroyalty of the New Kingdom of Granada or Viceroyalty of Santafé was the name given on 27 May 1717, to the jurisdiction of the Spanish Empire in norther ...

(1717–1819). After the Venezuelan War of Independence (1811–1823) it was a province in new nation of Venezuela until 1864.

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File:Provincia de Guayana Cantón Caycara.jpg, Cantón Caycara (now western Bolívar State) File:Provincia de Guayana Cantón Angostura.JPG, Cantón Angostura (now central Bolívar State) File:Provincia de Guayana Cantón Upata.JPG, Cantón Upata (now eastern Bolívar State) File:Provincia de Guayana Cantón Piacoa.JPG, Cantón Piacoa (now

Delta Amacuro Delta Amacuro State ( es, Estado Delta Amacuro, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela, and is the location of the Orinoco Delta. The Paria Gulf and the Atlantic Ocean are found to the north, Bolívar State is found to the south, the Atlantic ...

, previously part of colonial New Andalusia Province) File:Provincia de Guayana Cantón Rionegro.JPG, Cantón Rionegro (now Amazonas State)

** Governorate of New Andalusia (1501–13) ** New Andalusia Province (1537–1864) ** Captaincy General of Venezuela (1777–1823) The Guianas Colonial Venezuela Provinces of the Spanish Empire Former colonies in South America History of Guyana Spanish period of Trinidad and Tobago History of Venezuela Provinces of Venezuela Geography of Bolívar (state) Viceroyalty of New Granada States and territories established in 1585 States and territories disestablished in 1821 States and territories disestablished in 1864 1585 establishments in South America 1864 disestablishments in South America 1585 establishments in the Spanish Empire 1821 disestablishments in the Spanish Empire 16th-century establishments in Venezuela 1820s disestablishments in Venezuela 1820s establishments in Venezuela 1860s disestablishments in Venezuela {{Spain-hist-stub

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