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Encyclopedia > Real Audiencia

An Audiencia (Spanish: audiency) was a Judicial District to functioned as an Appeals Court. Each Audiencia had Oidores (Spanish: hearer, a judge).


In what is now present Mexico, the Viceroy himself served as oidor, but several Audiencias existed in New Spain, such as in former Panama, Santo Domingo (West Indies and Venezuela), Mexico (Mexico City, Florida, Gulf of Mexico), Guatemala, and Nueva Galicia. The Audiencia de Charas' is present-day Bolivia; the Audiencia de Quito now Ecuador. A viceroy is somebody who governs a country or province as a substitute for the monarch. ... Flag of New Spain New Spain (in the Spanish language Nueva España) was the name given to the Spanish colonial territory in North America from c. ... Santo Domingo, population 2,061,200 (2003), is the capital of the Dominican Republic. ... The Indies, on the display globe of the Field Museum, Chicago The Indies or East Indies (or East India) is a term used to describe lands of South and Southeast Asia, occupying all of the former British India, the present Indian Union, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and... Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México) is the federal capital of, and largest city in, Mexico. ... State nickname: Sunshine State, Everglade State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush Official languages English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  - Land 137,374 km²  - Water 30,486 km² (17. ... The Gulf of Mexico is a major body of water bordered and nearly landlocked by North America. ... Nueva Galicia (New Galicia) was a region of New Spain. ...


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