text: The establishment of a Captaincy General in Caracas and an Audiencia in Quito, still nominally subject to the Viceroy, but for all purposes independent, was a response to the necessities of effectively governing their surrounding regions, and some analysts consider that it was also reflecting a degree of local traditions that, much later, eventually contributed to creating differing political and national differences between the newly independent territories that the unifying efforts of Simón Bolívar could not overcome.