Pedro Antonio deOlañeta y Marquiegui (1774 in Elgueta, Gipuzkoa, Spain – April 2, 1825 in Tumusla, Potosí Department, Bolivia) was a Royalist commander
the death of the last Viceroy Pedro Antonio Olañeta. In 1680, Manuel Lobo, Portuguese governor of Rio de Janeiro, created the Department of Colonia and
María Valdez [es]. Olañeta then summoned a war council, which agreed to continue the resistance in the name of Ferdinand VII. Next, Olañeta sent to the Cotagaita
1823, conservative Royalist general Pedro Antonio Olañeta, based in the region of Upper Peru, rebelled [es] against la Serna. Bolívar seized the opportunity