The San Martín Territory ( es, Territorio de San Martín) was a

national territory A federal territory is an administrative division under the direct and usually exclusive jurisdiction of a federation's national government. A federal territory is a part of a federation, but not a part of any federated state. The states constitu ...

of the

Republic of New Granada The Republic of New Granada was a 1831–1858 centralist unitary republic consisting primarily of present-day Colombia and Panama with smaller portions of today's Costa Rica, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and Brazil. On 9 May 1834, the national fla ...

(1846-1856) and the

United States of Colombia United States of Colombia () was the name adopted in 1863 by the for the Granadine Confederation, after years of civil war. Colombia became a federal state itself composed of nine "sovereign states.” It comprised the present-day nations ...

(1866-1886) created on June 2, 1846.Persistencia y cambio en la frontera oriental de Colombia
/ref> The capital was San Martín. In the South it bordered the

Caquetá Territory The Caquetá Territory ( es, Territorio del Caquetá) was a national territory of the Republic of New Granada and the subsequent states of the Granadine Confederation and the United States of Colombia from 1845 to 1886. Its capital was Mocoa. ...

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* 1832 part of

Bogotá Province Bogotá Province was one of the provinces of Gran Colombia and later of the Republic of New Granada. Information Bogotá is located high in the Andes at 2620 m. (8646 ft) and is a city full of skyscrapers and is right next to colonial church ...

as San Martín Territory. * 1844 part of Cundinamarca State as San Martín Territory. * 1856 part of

as the San Martín Canton. * 1863 part of Cundinamarca State as San Martín Territory. * 1867 Cundinamarca cedes all rights over the territory to the Union * 1875 it is named

Meta Province Meta (from the Greek μετά, ''meta'', meaning "after" or "beyond") is a prefix meaning "more comprehensive" or "transcending". In modern nomenclature, ''meta''- can also serve as a prefix meaning self-referential, as a field of study or ende ...

* 1886 as

Oriente Province Oriente (, "East") was the easternmost province of Cuba until 1976. The term "Oriente" is still used to refer to the eastern part of the country, which currently is divided into five different provinces. Fidel and Raúl Castro were born in a ...

part of Cundinamarca Department * 1906 Meta National Territory * 1909 Meta National Intendency * 1959

Meta Department Meta () is a department of Colombia. It is close to the geographic center of the country, to the east of the Andean mountains. A large portion of the department, which is also crossed by the Meta River, is covered by a grassland plain known as ...

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