Intendancy of San Salvador
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The Intendancy of San Salvador (Spanish: Intendencia de San Salvador) was an administrative division of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, itself an administrative division of the Viceroyalty of New Spain which was a part of the Spanish Empire.
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Intendancy of San Salvador Intendencia de San Salvador | |||||||||
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1785–1821 | |||||||||
Status | Spanish colony | ||||||||
Capital | San Salvador | ||||||||
Common languages | Spanish | ||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||
Government | Intendancy | ||||||||
King | |||||||||
• 1785–1788 | Charles III | ||||||||
• 1788–1808 | Charles IV | ||||||||
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| Ferdinand VII | ||||||||
• 1808–1813 | Joseph I | ||||||||
Colonial Intendant | |||||||||
• 1786–1789 | José Ortiz de la Peña (first) | ||||||||
• 1819–1821 | Pedro Barriere (last) | ||||||||
Historical era | Bourbon Reforms | ||||||||
• Established | 1785 | ||||||||
15 September 1821 | |||||||||
• Disestablished | 21 September 1821 | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 117,436 | 1,778 | ||||||||
• 145,906 | 1,800 | ||||||||
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Today part of | El Salvador |
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The intendancy was formed in 1785 as a part of the Bourbon Reforms and was formed along with the intendancies of Ciudad Real, Comayagua, and León. It was dissolved in 1821 following the signing of the Act of Independence of Central America on 15 September of that year that established the United Provinces of Central America, which San Salvador joined as a province.