Gran Colombia), officially the Republic of Colombia was a state in South America, covering most of the north of that continent, but also southern parts of Central America.
It was proclaimed in 1819 at the Congress in Angostura, and was consolidated in 1821, while formally dissolved in 1831.
Gran Colombia encompassed the territory of the present-day states of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama, western Guyana, and northern Peru and Brazil.
The territory of Gran Colombia corresponded, roughly, to the territory of the former New Granada Sub-Kingdom and, accordingly, claimed to claim the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua and the Mosquito Coast.
