Intendancy of Lima

On December 22, 1574, when viceroy Francisco de Toledo reorganised the Indian Corregimientos, which had been created by governor Lope García de Castro in 1565 by appointing native judges, he ordered that the corregimientos of Huarochirí, Huaylas, Ica, Jauja, Arnedo, Cajatambo and Canta depended on the ordinary mayors of the Cabildo of Lima. All of them in the district of the Real Audiencia of Lima. In 1576, Cañete was created, separating it from Ica and the city of Lima. In 1591 the Cercado de Lima was separated from Lima and Cañete. In the 17th century, the port of Callao began to have a military governor appointed by the king.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Adwv7EHmSSQC|title=El Corregidor de Indios en el Perú bajo los Austrias|author=Guillermo Lohmann Villena|publisher=Pontifical Catholic University of Peru - Fondo Editorial|date= 2001|isbn=9972-42-435-9}}

The intendancy system was established in the Viceroyalty of Peru by royal order of August 5, 1783. The first intendant of Lima (who took office in 1784) was the visitor general {{ill|Jorge Escobedo y Alarcón|es}},{{Cite web |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/35410/jorge-de-escobedo-y-alarcon |title=Jorge de Escobedo y Alarcón |website=Real Academia de la Historia |last=Peralta Ruiz |first=Víctor}} approved by the king on January 24 of 1785. In 1787, the mayor's office was left in the hands of the viceroy until 1805 when Juan María Gálvez, then intendant of Huancavelica, took office, being named on September 22, 1804.{{Cite book |title=Diccionario histórico-biográfico del Perú |last=de Mendiburu |first=Manuel |year=1876 |pages=421 |language=es |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DsI5-BDe-jUC |volume=1 |author-link=Manuel de Mendiburu |quote=Las intendencias que se erigieron en el Perú fueron 7, y despues se agregó la octava con el territorio de Puno. Había 54 partidos ó subdelegaciones con 1,360 pueblos. En Lima se vino á crear la intendencia en 1803 nombrándose en 22 de Setiembre de 1804 de primer intendente al coronel D. Juan María Galvez que lo era de Huancavelica. La de Lima tenia atribuciones limitadas por hallarse presente la autoridad del Virrey.}} In 1809, the intendancy was suppressed,{{Cite book |title=La Floresta Española Peruana |last=Monterola |first=J. M. |publisher=Imprenta del Comercio |year=1848 |pages=52 |language=es |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NWRZAAAAcAAJ |quote=Por Suprema resolucion de la Junta, se suprimió la Intendencia de Lima, que la servia D. Juan María Galvez, [...]}} although by 1811 it had been reestablished with Galvez back in office.{{Cite book |title=Diccionario histórico-biográfico del Perú |last=de Mendiburu |first=Manuel |year=1890 |publisher=J. F. Solis |pages=414 |language=es |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nrc8AAAAYAAJ |volume=8 |author-link=Manuel de Mendiburu}}

The parts of the intendancy occupied by the Liberating Expedition of Peru were replaced by the Department of the Coast on 12 February 1821, proclaimed by General Jose de San Martin through the Reglamento Provisional during the Peruvian War of Independence, and later in its entirety with the creation of the Department of Lima by the Provisional Statute, promulgated on October 8, 1821.{{Cite journal |title=Los inicios del constitucionalismo peruano (1821-1842) |journal=Pensamiento Constitucional |url=https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/pensamientoconstitucional/article/download/3304/3146/0 |last=García Belaúnde |first=Domingo |issue=4 |volume=4 |pages=235}}

The intendancy was divided into nine partidos.{{Cite book |title=Retazos de la Historia de Moquegua |last=Kuong Cabello |first=Luis E. |publisher=Universidad de Moquegua |year=1982 |pages=67 |language=es |url=http://www.luiskuoncabello.com/retazos-de-moquegua.html}}

The Governors (intendants) who ruled the intendancy of Lima were:

• {{ill|Jorge Escobedo y Alarcón|es}} (1784–1787)
• Colonel Juan María Galvez (1805–1809; 1811–1820)
• Bartolomé María de Salamanca (1820–1821)

• Cabildo of Lima

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