Averillas

Averillas is one of the five provinces of the state of Gran Altiplano in Ordis, located in the west of the country. It is the second most populous of the five, with a total of 20.38 million inhabitants as of the 2015 census. The provincial capital is Cedeño, although the city of Pereira is larger. It borders two of the four other provinces: Catamarca to the east and Altiplano to the north. It has the most coastline of any province in the country as a result of its topography and the presence of the non-contiguous department of Santander, located across the Bay of Averillas and entirely surrounded by Cartageña. The province is further subdivided into fourteen departments.

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Averillas was founded some time later than neighbouring Catamarca by a rival mercantile conglomerate, in 1561. It remained as a Spanishlandic territory until the rise of Eutanasio Rodriguez and the Hyspanic New State in the 19302. A military coup would remove King Gerardo II from power and place less radical right-wing nobles in power. In 1937, they appointed Fabián de Coruña as the new king of the country. He would rule until his death in 1976, after which public unrest led to the interruption of his son's coronation and, in conjunction with the actions of revolutionaries across the region, led to the dissolution of the government during the March Revolution of 1977. The state was the second to join the Confederation, having been primed for revolution by years of unpopular taxation and policies and an ongoing battle against guerrilla groups in the mountains of the south.