Granadine Confederation

The Granadine Confederation was a short-lived federal republic established in 1858 as a result of a constitutional change replacing the Republic of New Granada — the Colombian state shown on the map between its republican predecessors and successors. It consisted of the present-day nations of Colombia and Panama and parts of northwestern Brazil, and its capital remained Bogotá, seat of the confederal government over a union of Sovereign States — among them Cundinamarca, which included the provinces of Mariquita, Bogotá, Neiva and Tolima, and Magdalena, with El Banco, Padilla, Santa Marta, Tenerife and Valledupar. The confederation lasted through the civil strife of its decade: the 1859–1862 war between the liberal and conservative states convulsed it, ending in the liberal victory that wrote a new charter. In 1863 the Confederation was replaced by the United States of Colombia, the next name of the federation whose territory would in 1903 lose Panama and in 1886 take the name Republic of Colombia.