The Real Audiencia de Buenos Aires, were two audiencias, or highest courts, of the Spanish

Spain

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 crown, which resided in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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. The authority of the first extended to the territory of the Governorate of the Río de la Plata and operated from 1661 to 1671. The second began to function in 1783 and had as its territory the areas of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata

Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata

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 not covered by the Audiencia de Charcas, that is to say the intendancies

Intendant

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 of Buenos Aires, Córdoba del Tucumán, Salta del Tucumán and Paraguay. In 1810, after the May Revolution

May Revolution

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, it was suspended, and in 1813 the Assembly of the Year XIII

Asamblea del Año XIII

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 permanently disbanded it. The Audiencias resided in the city's cabildo building

Buenos Aires Cabildo

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Audiencia of Buenos Aires during the Governorate

Created by Philip IV

Philip IV of Spain

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 by decree

Decree

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 (real cédula) in 1661, it covered the governorates of Río de la Plata, Paraguay

History of Paraguay (to 1811)

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 (established in 1617) and Tucumán. This Audiencia was dissolved in 1671.

The Recompilation of Laws of the Indies of 1680, Law XIII (Audiencia y Chancilleria Real de la Ciudad de la Trinidad, Puerto de Buenos Ayres) Title XV (De las Audiencias y Chancillerias Reales de las Indias) of Book II, compiles the limits and functionaries of this Audiencia.

Audiencia of Buenos Aires under the Viceroyalty

Created during the reign of Charles III of Spain

Charles III of Spain

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 (1759-1788) and during the government of viceroy Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo

Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo

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, in 1783, as part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata

Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata

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, from August 1, 1776.

Its territory included the intendancies mentioned above and the subordinate Governorates of Misiones

Misiones Department

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 and Montevideo

Montevideo

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