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Real Audiencia of Chile
The Real Audiencia of Chile was a Spanish colonial-era government body established as a provincial authority under the Viceroy of Peru. It was first installed in 1565 at the city of Concepcion in Chile. In 1609 it was moved to Santiago.
The body consisted of the Royal Governor of Chile, four oidores (literally hearers) , and a fiscal or state prosecutor. Since it was considered a mainstay of royal power support, it was dissolved in 1811 after the Figueroa mutiny - a monarchist uprising against the new republicans - being replaced by the Tribunal de Apelaciones or Appeals Court.
With the temporary return of the Spanish imperial power after the Battle of Rancagua, the body was reconstituted by the new Governor, Mariano Osorio. It functioned until 1818, when it was finally shut down by the government of Bernardo O'Higgins, again replaced by an Appeals Court, this time called the Camara de Apelaciones. This was in turn the ancestor of today's Chilean Appeals Court in Santiago.
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