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State · 1819 – 1831

Gran Colombia

A state of 1819 – 1831 — 12 years in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced Real Audiencia of Quito and Viceroyalty of New Granada. It was replaced by Venezuela, Ecuador and Federal Republic of Central America and 2 more. The atlas records 5 things within it — wars and battles 3 · people 2. Its line of rulers holds 7 people. Its own article says it was dissolved.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
12 years
1819 – 1831
Rulers
7
the President of Colombia
Most ground
4.34 million km²
in 1824
Within it
5
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Gran Colombia in 1824, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Gran Colombia in 1824, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 4.34 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Real Audiencia of Quito: 1563 – 1822Federal Republic of Central America: 1823 – 1841Republic of New Granada: 1831 – 1858Venezuela: 1999 – 2026Gran Colombia: 1819 – 1831

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

After it

How it ended, as its article says

Dissolved, 1831. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

Gran Colombia was dissolved in 1831 due to the political differences that existed between supporters of federalism and centralism, as well as regional tensions among the peoples that made up the republic.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of President of Colombia - the office this state names as its head of state.

Camilo Torres Tenorio · 1812 – 1814 · left office aliveCustodio García Rovira · 1814 – 1815 · left office aliveJosé Miguel Pey · 1815 – 1815 · left office aliveSimón Bolívar · 1819 – 1830 · died in office of natural causesDomingo Caycedo · 1830 – 1830 · deposed, the article saysJerónimo de Mendoza Galavís · 1831 – 1831 · left office aliveFrancisco de Paula Santander · 1832 – 1837 · left office alive182018221824182618281830
deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular road
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Camilo Torres Tenorio1812 – 18142 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Custodio García Rovira1814 – 18151 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
José Miguel Pey1815 – 1815under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Simón Bolívar1819 – 183011 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Domingo Caycedo1830 – 1830under a yeardeposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Jerónimo de Mendoza Galavís1831 – 1831under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Francisco de Paula Santander1832 – 18375 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone

7 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1812 – 1837. Only 25 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 6 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.81, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

1824182618281830

4.34 million km² in 1824, 2.86 million km² in 1831; at its largest 4.34 million km² in 1824. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Coat of arms of Gran Colombia (1821)
    coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Gran Colombia (1821) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Milenioscuro
  • Flag of Gran Colombia
    flag, undatedFlag of Gran Colombia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Milenioscuro

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1800 – 18994 rows · 3 wars and battles

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood12 years

    stood longer than 19% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held4,341,200 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 97% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century1.0

    had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • Rulers on record7

    has more rulers on record than 73% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 3 causes the record names and 5 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Real Audiencia of Quito · Linked · 1563 – 1822Real Audiencia of QuitoViceroyalty of New Granada · Linked · 1717 – 1819Viceroyalty of New GranadaAntonio José de Sucre · Coincidence · 1795 – 1830Antonio José de SucreGran Colombia · 1819 – 1831Gran ColombiaRepublic of New Granada · Linked · 1831 – 1858Republic of New GranadaEcuador · Linked · 1830 – 2026EcuadorFederal Republic of Central America · Linked · 1823 – 1841Federal Republic of Central Amer…British Guiana · Linked · 1814 – 1966British GuianaVenezuela · Linked · 1999 – 2026Venezuela16001700180019002000
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Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

  • Demographic-structural breakdown

    Goldstone 1991 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009

    Applies by its own logic: 2 of its 3 conditions held here (it needs 2), and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — unrest, adverse regime change or the state's ending.

    • overlapping reigns — rival claimants — within 20 y, or 3 or more changes of ruler within 20 y, or 2 or more reigns of two years or less within 20 y, or a monarch deposed or killed within 20 y — handovers 5; shortReigns 2
    • a war the state is fighting, still under way, or a war the state fought, ended within 10 y — warOngoing; warEnded

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q199821 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.