Challenge: 50 C for 5 Continents

For South America it's hard, but not impossible: after all, in OTL we have more countries than the number of entities that formed Spanish America, as they subdivided forming OTL states. From the Vicerroyalty of river Plate, for example, the countries of Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Bolivia were formed.

At the same time, in Argentina at least, sub-entities also subdivided, forming different provinces: the Intendencia de Tucumán once included the Provinces of Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán and Catamarca, for example.

It was as if in 1810, for a short period, every city wanted to get autonomy and, if it could, become the capital of a country. Maybe we can have this tendency kept going, as it did in central America, and have like 14 countries were we have Argentina, 7 instead of chile, and so on.

The fact that, unlike in Central America, most of these countries won't have acces to the sea is a problem that conspires against this. But Paraguay doesn't heve a coast IOTL, and that didn't stop them from declaring independence in 1811...

Brazil may also be divided in several states, and an european country might have established a colony in patagonia, that might later get independent
 
Well, something I didn't mention is the possibility of just having like 30 city states in South America to mitigate the problem. Granted, the city state solution is somewhat cheap, however this scenario is hard enough as it is.
 
It was as if in 1810, for a short period, every city wanted to get autonomy and, if it could, become the capital of a country. Maybe we can have this tendency kept going, as it did in central America, and have like 14 countries were we have Argentina, 7 instead of chile, and so on.

That's what I was thinking, too. I know that in Ecuador, many cities declared their independence individually, long before the formation of Ecuador or Gran Colombia. Guayaquil was the first city, followed by Portoviejo, Cuenca, Guaranda, Latacunga, Riobamba, and Ambato. Quito was the last city to be freed from Spain.
 
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