Province of Las Californias
| Las Californias Las Californias | |||||||||
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| Province of New Spain | |||||||||
| 1767–1804 | |||||||||
Las Californias within the Viceroyalty of New Spain | |||||||||
| Capital | Loreto (1767–1777) Monterey (1777–1804) | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Type | Colonial government | ||||||||
| Gobernadores | |||||||||
• 1767–1770 | Gaspar de Portolá (first) | ||||||||
• 1800–1804 | José Joaquín de Arrillaga (last) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1767 | ||||||||
• Divided into Alta and Baja California provinces | 1804 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | United States Mexico | ||||||||
The Province of Las Californias (Spanish: Provincia de las Californias) was a Spanish Empire province in the northwestern region of New Spain. Its territory consisted of the entire U.S. states of California, Nevada, and Utah, parts of Arizona, Wyoming, and Colorado, and the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur.