Vicereame of the Río de la Plata (1783). In rosso, the intendencias dell'Alto Perù.
Alto Peru was a region under the control of the Spanish Empire, belonging first to the Viceroy of Peru, then to the Viceroy of the Río de la Plata. It can be defined as the ancient name of Bolivia.
It was subdivided into superintendences (intendencias), which then became departments:
It included the Bolivian plateau and was populated mainly by khala (or koya) and aymara (mostly in La Paz), uros (near the Titicaca Lake) and other ethnicities in Quechua (near Cochabamba, Sucre and Potosí).
From the ethnic and cultural point of view it had more affinities with coastal Andean Peru than the area of the Moxo, corresponding to the departments of Acre (now Brazil), Beni and much of the department of Santa Cruz (in Eastern and Amazon Bolivia).
However, all these territories, at the time of separation with Río de La Plata and Basso Peru, entered the Republic of Bolivia. Voices correlateemodify wikitesto
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