Bernardo de Velasco

Bernardo de Velasco
Portrait by Guglielmo Da Re, 1890
Intendent Governor of Paraguay
In office 5 May 1806 – 17 June 1811
Preceded by	Lázaro de Ribera y Espinoza
Succeeded by	Post abolished (replaced by Superior Governing Junta of the Province of Paraguay)
Military and political governor of the thirty towns of the Missions
In office 9 October 1804 – 17 June 1811
Monarch	Charles IV of Spain
Preceded by	Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires
Personal details
Born	Bernardo Luis de Velasco y Huidobro 20 August 1742 Villadiego, Burgos, Spain
Died	Unknown, possibly around 1821 Asunción, Paraguay
Nationality	Spain and Paraguay
Occupation	Military

Bernardo Luis de Velasco y Huidobro (20 August 1742 – c. 1821) was a figure in the Spanish American wars of independence, the last Spanish governor of the Intendency of Paraguay and a commander of royalist military forces in the war. He was deposed by the congress celebrated in Asunción on 17 June 1811. He was born in Villadiego, Burgos, Spain.