Verapaz, Guatemala

Province of Verapaz Provincia de la Verapaz (Spanish)
Province of Kingdom of Guatemala
1544–1821
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Capital	Cobán
Population
• ca 1550	ca 52,000
• 1577	ca 3,000
Government
• Type	Monarchy
Sovereign
• 1544-1556	Charles I / first
• 1813-1821	Ferdinand VII / last
Provincial head
• 1544-1550	Bartolomé de las Casas / first
Legislature	Audiencia of Guatemala / 1544-1564; 1570-1821 Audiencia of Mexico / 1564-1570
Historical era	Spanish colonisation to Latin American independence
• Established	1544
• Disestablished	1821
Today part of	Belize / de jure Guatemala
Native name per Luján Muñoz 2005a, p. 693 and de la Puente Brunke & Guevara Gil 2008, p. 587. Start date per Luján Muñoz 2005a, p. 695. Capital per Luján Muñoz 2005a, p. 695. Population per Luján Muñoz 2005b, pp. 292, 322. Provincial leaders per xx. Legislature per de la Puente Brunke & Guevara Gil 2008, pp. 556–557, 561 and Luján Muñoz 2005b, pp. 99–100.

Verapaz, formerly Tezulutlan, was a second order subdivision of the former Kingdom of Guatemala, itself a constituent part of New Spain.^{[n 1]}
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