Capitanía General de Guatemala es el nombre por el que se conoce a la entidad territorial (integrante del Imperio español, y a su vez de la Corona española en su período de dominio americano) llamada Reino de Guatemala que era administrada por la Real Audiencia de Guatemala (la cual estaba encabezada por un presidente que era designado por el monarca …

The Captaincy General of Cuba (Spanish: Capitanía General de Cuba) was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1607 as part of Habsburg Spain's attempt to better defend and administer its Caribbean possessions. It also involved creating captaincies general in Puerto Rico, Guatemala and Yucatán.. The restructuring of the Captaincy General in 1764 …

The Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (Spanish: Capitanía General de Santo Domingo pronounced [kapitaˈni.a xeneˈɾal de ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] ()) was the first colony in the New World, established by Spain in 1492 on the island of Hispaniola.The colony, under the jurisdiction of the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo, was granted administrative powers over the Spanish …

The Captaincy General of Guatemala (Spanish: Capitanía General de Guatemala), also known as the Kingdom of Guatemala (Spanish: Reino de Guatemala), was an administrative division of the Spanish Empire, under the viceroyalty of New Spain in Central America, including the present-day nations of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, and the …

Un capitán es una persona que dirige, encabeza, comanda, gobierna o representa a un grupo. Etimológicamente, el término parece provenir del latín capitanus, «jefe», que derivaría, a su vez, del también término latino caput, «cabeza», y este del indoeuropeo kaput, con igual significado. [cita requerida] Existe la figura de capitán en contextos diversos y con características ...

This article lists the heads of state of Cuba from 1902 until the present day.. Between 1902 and 1976 (under the 1901 and the 1940 constitutions), the role of the head of state was performed by the President of Cuba.. Between 1976 and 2019 (under the 1976 Constitution), the position of President was abolished and replaced by the President of the Council of State.

The Venezuelan War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia de Venezuela, 1810–1823) was one of the Spanish American wars of independence of the early nineteenth century, when independence movements in Latin America fought against rule by the Spanish Empire, emboldened by Spain's troubles in the Napoleonic Wars.. The establishment of the …

Cuba (/ ˈ k juː b ə / KEW-bə, Spanish: ()), officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: República de Cuba [reˈpuβlika ðe ˈkuβa] ()), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.Cuba is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet.Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula ...

The Puerto Rico campaign was the American military sea and land operation on the island of Puerto Rico during the Spanish–American War.The offensive began on May 12, 1898, when the United States Navy attacked the capital, San Juan.Though the damage inflicted on the city was minimal, the Americans were able to establish a blockade in the city's harbor, San Juan Bay.

Origins. Daiquirí is also the name of a beach and an iron mine near Santiago de Cuba, and is a word of Taíno origin. The drink was supposedly invented by an American mining engineer named Jennings Cox, who was in Cuba (then at the tail-end of the Spanish Captaincy-General government) at the time of the Spanish–American War.It is also possible that William A. …