The Colombian War of Independence is traditionally held as having begun on July 20, 1810 when a government junta, a political governing board mostly headed by local colonists, was created in Santa Fe de Bogotá, the capital of the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Granada. This junta overthrew the reigning viceroy of New Granada and established an autonomous government that claimed sovereignty over all of the Viceroyalty of New Granada.
However, various other provinces of New Granada, such as Cartagena and Socorro, had formed their own autonomous governments weeks before the main junta of Santa Fe de Bogotá, with Quito forming the first junta on August 10, 1809. These events inspired similar autonomist movements across South America, and triggered an almost decade-long rebellion culminating in the founding of the Republic of Colombia, which spanned present-day Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela, along with parts of northern Peru and northwestern Brazil.
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