The Bogota core that inherited Gran Colombia, holding the Andean cordilleras and the isthmus of Panama.
Renamed itself Colombia in 1863; lost Panama to a US-backed secession in 1903 but endures as the Republic of Colombia.
New Granada / Colombia's emergence from Gran Colombia within a broad Latin American history.
A standard single-volume University of California Press survey of modern Latin America, giving the same broad regional context for the citing states and colonies.