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Captaincy General of Guatemala
Capitanía General de Guatemala(Spanish)
1542–1821
Flag
Coat of arms
Map of the provinces of the Kingdom of Guatemala.
Status
Kingdom
Capital
Santiago de Guatemala
Guatemala City
Gracias, Lempira (1544–1549)
Common languages
Spanish (official)
Mayan languages
Nawat
Lenca
Religion
Catholicism
Government
Monarchy
• 1542–1621
Philip III
• 1621–1665
Philip IV
• 1808–1813
Joseph I Bonaparte (not recognized)
• 1810–1814
Cortes of Cádiz
• 1814–1821
Ferdinand VII
Captaincy General
Legislature
Audiencia of Guatemala
Historical era
Spanish Empire
• Established
1542
• Disestablished
1821
Currency
Peso
ISO 3166 code
GT
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Real Audiencia of Guatemala
First Mexican Empire
Federal Republic of Central America
Map of the Provinces formed from the Captaincy General of Guatemala, including the Kingdom of Mosquitia, up to 1821.
The Captaincy General of Guatemala (Spanish: Capitanía General de Guatemala), also known as the Kingdom of Guatemala (Spanish: Reino de Guatemala), was an administrative division of the Spanish Empire, under the viceroyalty of New Spain in Central America, including the present-day nations of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, and the Mexican state of Chiapas. The governor-captain general was also president of the Royal Audiencia of Guatemala, the superior court.
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