Santa Cruz Department () was a department of

Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...

, a constituent country of the

Peru–Bolivian Confederation The Peru–Bolivian Confederation () was a short-lived state that existed in South America between 1836 and 1839. The country was a loose confederation made up of three states: North Peru and South Peru—states that arose from the division of th ...

, which existed from 1836 to 1839. Created alongside the confederate state, its capital was

Santa Cruz de la Sierra Santa Cruz de la Sierra (; ), commonly known as Santa Cruz, is the largest city in Bolivia and the capital of the Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia), Santa Cruz department. Situated on the Pirai River (Bolivia), Pirai River in the eastern Tropical ...

History

Santa Cruz sent deputies to the Congress of Tapacarí in June 1836, where the

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, under the command of General

Andrés de Santa Cruz Andrés de Santa Cruz y Calahumana (; 30 November 1792 – 25 September 1865) was a Bolivian general and politician who served as interim president of Peru in 1827, the interim president of Peru from 1836 to 1838 and the sixth president of ...

agreed that after the military intervention in Peru, give recognition to the creation of the Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation. The Fundamental Law of 1837, signed in the city of

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, with the approval of the self-proclaimed supreme protector Andrés de Santa Cruz, recognized Santa Cruz as a founding department of the Confederation. Santa Cruz was subject to the General Government, its governor was appointed by the president of the State, and this in turn was appointed by the supreme protector on duty. The governor was obliged to elect representatives of his department to participate in congressional meetings, which were ordered by the president of the Bolivian State.

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History

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