The Provincias Internas, also known as the Comandancia y Capitanía General de las Provincias Internas (Commandancy and General Captaincy of the Internal Provinces), was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1776 to provide more autonomy for the frontier provinces of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, present-day northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States. The goal of its creation was to establish a unified government in political, military and fiscal affairs. Nevertheless, the Commandancy General experienced significant changes in its administration because of experimentation to find the best government for the frontier region as well as bureaucratic in-fighting. Its creation was part of the Bourbon Reforms and was part of an effort to invigorate economic and population growth in the region to stave off encroachment on the region by foreign powers. During its existence, the Commandancy General encompassed the provinces of Nueva Navarre, Nueva Vizcaya, Las Californias, Nuevo México, Nuevo Santander, Nuevo Reyno de León, Coahuila (formerly Nueva Extremadura) and Texas.
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The ProvinciasInternas, also known as the Comandancia y Capitanía General de las ProvinciasInternas (Commandancy and General Captaincy of the Internal...
Spanish colonial official who served as the Commandant-General of the ProvinciasInternas, which at the time included much of northern Mexico and the Southwestern...
José de Gálvez returned with them. The Commandancy General of the ProvinciasInternas del Norte (Commandancy General of the Internal Provinces of the North)...
las ProvinciasInternas. As the capital, Arizpe became a city by the end of the eighteenth century, the first in the Sonora region. The Provincias Internas...
division was established, Commandancy General of the ProvinciasInternas known as the ProvinciasInternas (Commandancy General of the Internal Provinces of...
and in 1776, Nuevo Santander became part of the semi-autonomous ProvinciasInternas. José de Escandón founded the colony in 1747. In 1755, Jiménez was...
of Nuevo Santander created. 1777–1793 Part of ProvinciasInternas. 1812–1822 Part of ProvinciasInternas. 1822 Part of independent Mexico as Tamaulipas...
Governor-General of the Philippines (1793–1806) Commandancy General of the ProvinciasInternas – Pedro da Nava, Commandant General of the Interior Provinces (1793–1802)...
dramatically. The Cueros or the garrisons of the Presidios in the Provinciasinternas were expanded from 734 men in 1729 to 2,187 men in 1777 and then...
Governor-General of the Philippines (1793–1806) Commandancy General of the ProvinciasInternas – Pedro da Nava, Commandant General of the Interior Provinces (1793–1802)...
Governor-General of the Philippines (1793–1806) Commandancy General of the ProvinciasInternas – Pedro da Nava, Commandant General of the Interior Provinces (1793–1802)...
in the American Southwest since the area was part of New Spain's ProvinciasInternas. Most of the historically Hispanophone populations eventually adopted...
Navarrese Juan Matheo Manje. Later Nueva Navarra was a province in the ProvinciasInternas, one of the frontier provinces of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Brigadier...
Governor-General of the Philippines (1793–1806) Commandancy General of the ProvinciasInternas – Pedro da Nava, Commandant General of the Interior Provinces (1793–1802)...
California Spanish colonization of the Americas Viceroyalty of New Spain ProvinciasInternas Mattison, Ray (1946-10-01). "Early Spanish and Mexican Settlements...
traditional policy than arming white Mexicans. The northern frontier, the ProvinciasInternas, with its population of nomadic Indians, was the only warlike area...
Administratively, the area of Nevada was part of the Commandancy General of the ProvinciasInternas in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Nevada became a part of Alta California...
1598–1821 Nuevo Santander, 1746–1821 Commandancy General of the ProvinciasInternas Spanish missions in Texas French colony of Louisiane, 1699–1764 Treaty...
Veláquez, María del (1979). "Los Reglamentos". Tres estudios sobre las provinciasinternas de Nueva España (in Spanish). Vol. 87. El Colegio de México. pp. 157–170...
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