Colombian War of Independence

Colombian War of Independence
	Part of the Atlantic Revolutions, Spanish American wars of independence, Decolonization of the Americas and Napoleonic Wars
	; From left to right and top to bottom: Battle of Calibío, Battle of Juanambú, Battle of the Palo River, Siege of Cartagena (1815), Battle of Boyacá and Congress of Cúcuta.
Date	July 20, 1810 – April 2, 1825
Location	Northern South America, Andean South America, the Caribbean, Central America, Florida
Result	Colombian and Allied victory Creation of the Republic of Colombia ; Creation of the republics of Peru and Bolivia ; End of the Spanish political presence in South America ;
Territorial; changes	Spain cedes New Granada to the Republic of Colombia
Belligerents
Republic of Colombia (from 1819); New Granadine Patriots (1816–1819); United Provinces of New Granada (1811–1816); Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca (1811–1815); Supreme Governing Junta of Santa Fe in New Granada (1810); First Republic of Venezuela (1811–1812); Second Republic of Venezuela (1813–1814); Third Republic of Venezuela (1817–1819); Supported by: United Kingdom; Haiti;	Bourbon Kingdom of Spain (from 1813); and its territories: Viceroyalty of New Granada ; Captaincy General of Venezuela ; Captaincy General of Puerto Rico ; Viceroyalty of Peru; Napoleonic Kingdom of Spain (1808–1813);
Commanders and leaders
Simón Bolívar; Francisco de Santander; Antonio Nariño (POW); Camilo Tenorio ; Antonio Baraya ; Antonio Villavicencio ; José y Lozano; José Córdova; José Padilla; José Cabal ; Manuel y Rada ; Manuel Serviez ; Tomás de Mosquera; Manuel de Álvarez ; Feancisco de Caldas ; José de Leyva ; Atanasio Girardot †; Antonio Ricaurte †; Juan Moreno;	Fernando VII; Juan de Sámano; Pablo Morillo; Melchor Aymerich; Miguel y Rosique; José Barreiro ; Melchor Aymerich; Agustín Agualongo ; Isidro Barrada; Sebastián de la Calzada; Ignacio Asín †;
Casualties and losses
	400,000 deaths (15% of the population of the Viceroyalty of New Granada and Venezuela in 1810)

The Colombian War of Independence began on July 20, 1810 when the Junta de Santa Fe was formed in Santa Fe de Bogota, the capital of the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Granada, to govern the territory autonomously from Spain. The event inspired similar independence movements across South America, and triggered an almost decade-long rebellion culminating in the founding of the Republic of Colombia, which spanned present-day Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela, along with parts of northern Peru and northwestern Brazil. Colombia was the first Spanish colony in South America to declare independence from Spain in 1810.

Although Gran Colombia would ultimately dissolve in 1831, it was for a time among the most powerful countries in the Western Hemisphere, and played an influential role in shaping the political development of other newly sovereign South American states. The modern nation-state of Colombia recognizes the event as its national independence day which broke away from Spanish rule that led the first independent nation of South America as well as the third oldest independent republic in the Western Hemisphere after the United States from the American Revolution against the British and Haiti from the Haitian Revolution against the French and white settlers.