Bermudez, Colonel, 130, 381 Biobio River, the, 138, 139, 141, 145-147, 150 Blanco, Guzman, Dictator of Venezuela, 391, 394-396, 398 _Blanco_, the, 119-121 Bogota, (city) 308, 312, 316, 317, 378, 384, 420, 448; founded, 413; one of the centres of Spanish-American culture, 422; Archbishop of, banished, 425, 457, 461; revolutionary junta in, 431; seat of federal government, 435, 442, 470, 471; punishment of, 438, 439 Bogota (province), 376, 416, 419, 434, 437; vice-royalty of, 71, 250, 313, 327, 356, 385, 416, 420, 426; jurisdiction of, 356, 420, 426, 429; audiencia of, 417; presidency of, 418; named New Granada, 419; declares itself an independent state, 433 Bolivar, Simon, the "Liberator" of South America, 79, 86, 368, 382, 384, 435; Dictator of Peru, 90, 98, 447; military exploits of, 92, 264, 317, 321, 366, 367; President of United States of Colombia, 99, 322, 378, 442, 443, 448, 450, 451; plan of, for South American Confederation, 99, 267, 320-322, 384, 442, 443, 450, 451; constitutions, 99, 101, 268, 270, 385, 386; undertakes conquest of Quito, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, 101, 318, 383, 384, 447; wins battle of Ayachucho, 264; welcomed in Bolivia, 267; political theories of, 268, 322, 448, 451; forced to retire from Peru, 270; drives Spanish from Venezuela and New Granada, 317, 370, 372, 374, 375, 378, 433-435, 439, 440, 444; interview of, with San Martin, 321; life of, devoted to South American independence, 366, 388, 451; army of, 376, 380, 381, 440, 441, 452; proclamation of, 376; overthrow of, 323, 326, 448, 450, 451; death of, 326, 387, 388, 452; character and education of, 364-366; native city of, 387; apotheosis of, 455 Bolivar, State of, 460, 463, 466