Popayán Province was first a Spanish jurisdiction under the

Royal Audience of Quito The of Quito (sometimes referred to as or ) was an administrative unit in the Spanish Empire which had political, military, and religious jurisdiction over territories that today include Ecuador, parts of northern Peru, parts of southern Colo ...

and the Royal Audience of Santafé, and after independence, was one of the provinces of the

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, later becoming the

Republic of New Granada The Republic of New Granada was a Centralism, centralist unitary republic consisting primarily of present-day Colombia and Panama with smaller portions of today's Costa Rica, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and Brazil that existed from 1831 to 1858. ...

. Watercolors of Popayán Province painted in 1853 by Manuel María Paz show indigenous peoples wearing the

ruana A ruana (possibly from Spanish language, Spanish ''ruana'' "ragged" or Quechuan languages, Quechua ''ruana'' "textile") is a poncho-style outer garment native to the Colombian and Venezuelan Andes. In Colombia, the ruana is the characteristic and ...

in the village of Pancitará (or Pansitará), and women called ''Llapangas'' known for "embroidery, dressmaking, or shop work," who wore embroidered cotton blouses, flannel skirts, and "neat, well-groomed bare feet."

Maps

File:Popayán in New Granada (1810).svg File:ProvinciaPopayan.jpg

References

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