Department of La Libertad (Peru–Bolivian Confederation)

The Department of La Libertad (Departamento de La Libertad) was a department of North Peru, a constituent country of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation, which existed from 1836 to 1839. Created alongside the confederate state, its capital was Trujillo.

History
La Libertad sent deputies to the Assembly of Huaura in August 1836, where the Constitution of the Northern Peruvian State was drafted under the guidance of the then rebel president Luis José de Orbegoso y Moncada in the midst of the Peruvian civil war since 1835. The constitution proclaimed the North-Peruvian State and the alliance with the Bolivian occupation forces for the creation of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation.

With the victory of Orbegoso, the Fundamental Law of 1837 in Tacna, with approval of the self-proclaimed supreme protector Andrés de Santa Cruz, recognized La Libertad as a founding department of the Confederation.

La Libertad was subject to the General Government, its governor was appointed by the president of the State, and this in turn was appointed by the supreme protector on duty. The governor was obliged to elect representatives of his department to participate in the Huaura assemblies, which were ordered by the president of the northern Peruvian State. La Libertad also had deputies in the Congress of the Confederation as part of the North-Peruvian parliamentary group, represented by Pablo Diéguez de Florencia, Pedro Delgado y Cotera, Manuel de Espino, Miguel Tinoco, José de Lamas and Juan Antonio de Torres.