The Great Colombia was a country of South America created in 1819 by the congress meeting in the city of Angostura through the Fundamental Law of the Republic, and later ratified by its counterpart meeting in Cúcuta in 1821, for the union of Venezuela and the New Granada in a single nation under the name of the Republic of Colombia, which was later adhered to by Panama (1821), Quito and Guayaquil (1822). The name Colombia is granted to the ideal of integration of all South America craved by Simón Bolívar. Already in 1815, on the island of Jamaica, Bolívar had exposed the idea of Colombia as a country that should become a reality.
The reason for the expansion to the thirteen colonies was for religious freedoms as well as other freedoms. Without religion perhaps they may have neverbranched out.
