Trujillo, Peru - History - Republican Era

Republican Era

The Provisional Regulations given by General San Martin in 1821 created the "Department of Trujillo", on the basis of colonial quartermaster, this demarcation was reinforced by the first "Constitution of Peru", 1823. For its size and economic wealth, "Department of Trujillo" was, between 1821 and 1825, the only stable and productive land that could have ordered the nascent republic, Trujillo was almost half the country and its capital city a prosperous city and safe, the same as for their efforts in favor of the war of emancipation, the January 31, 1822 received by decree of San Martin Protector, the title of "Meritorious and Fielísima City to the Homeland" and the municipality of the city, that time called cabildo, was given the dictation of "honorable".

In 1823, after the creation of the Republic of Peru, completed the protectorate of Jose de San Martin, and before the break of the royal troops took the city of Lima, the first President of Peru, Don Jose de la Riva Agüero together Sánchez Carrión prepared a project resolution naming Trujillo as provisional capital of the country what it occurred in a short period that year.

In 1824 the city received the liberating army of Simon Bolivar who, having assumed the government of the country, he established temporary government of the country in Trujillo, on March 8, 1824.

The "Court of Appeals" created by decree of February 12, 1821 by Jose de San Martin, with a jurisdiction that reached the territories of the present departments of Cajamarca, Piura, Lambayeque, Amazonas, then known as the Chachapoyas and Huamachuco then known as the present province of Sanchez Carrion, based in the city of Trujillo, created to replace the Royal Court. On March 26, 1824 Simón Bolivar settled in Trujillo's first Superior Court of Justice being the first one that had the Republic of Peru, as the highest court of justice, with powers of Supreme Court, under the name Northern Superior Court.