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Captaincy General of Puerto Rico
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Captaincy General of Puerto Rico Capitanía General de Puerto Rico | |||||||||
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| 1580–1898 | |||||||||
| Motto: "JOANNES EST NOMEN EJUS" "John is his name | |||||||||
| Anthem: Anthem of Riego
1873-1874 | |||||||||
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.svg) Viceroyalty of New Spain in 1794, with the Captaincy General of Puerto Rico shown in light pink | |||||||||
| Status | Captaincy General, Autonomous Province | ||||||||
| Capital | San Juan | ||||||||
| Common languages | Spanish (Oficial), Taíno, Galician, Basque, Catalan | ||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism(State religion) | ||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Spaniard, Puerto Rican | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy (1598-1872,1875-1898). Federal semi-presidential republic (1873–1874) | ||||||||
| King | |||||||||
• 1580–1598 | Philip II | ||||||||
• 1759–1788 | Charles III | ||||||||
• 1886–1898 | Alfonso XIII Maria Christina of Austria (Regent) | ||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||
• 1580 | Jerónimo de Agüero Campuzano | ||||||||
• 1898 | Ricardo de Ortega y Díez | ||||||||
| Legislature | None | ||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern Europe | ||||||||
• Administrative reorganisation | 1580 | ||||||||
• Spanish republican period | 11 February 1873 - 29 December 1874. | ||||||||
• US Invasion (Puerto Rico campaign) | July 25, 1898 | ||||||||
• End of Spanish Sovereignty and Establishment of the United States Military Government of Porto Rico. | 10 December 1898 | ||||||||
| 10 December 1898 | |||||||||
| Currency | Spanish real, Puerto Rican peso | ||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | PR | ||||||||
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The Captaincy General of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Capitanía General de Puerto Rico) was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire, created in 1580 to provide better military management of the island of Puerto Rico, previously under the direct rule of a lone governor and the jurisdiction of Audiencia of Santo Domingo. Its creation was part of the, ultimately futile, Habsburg attempt in the late 16th century to prevent incursion into the Caribbean by foreign powers. Spain also established Captaincies General in Cuba, Guatemala and Yucatán.
The Captaincy General played a crucial role in the history of the Spanish Caribbean. The institution lasted until 1898 in Puerto Rico, when an autonomous local government, headed by a governor-general and an insular parliament, was instituted just months before Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the United States in 1898 following defeat in the Spanish–American War.
- ^ Presidency of the Government (11 October 1997). "Real Decreto 1560/1997, de 10 de octubre, por el que se regula el Himno Nacional" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado núm. 244 (in Spanish). Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2015.
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