On receipt of the glorious news, the people of Lima greeted Bolivar with wild enthusiasm.

A Congress prolonged his dictatorship amid adulations that bordered on the grotesque.
Eastward of Peru in the vast mountainous region of Charcas, on the very heights of South America, the royalists still found a refuge.

In January, 1825, a patriot general at the town of La Paz undertook on his own responsibility to declare the entire province independent, alike of Spain, Peru, and the United Provinces of La Plata.

This action was too precipitous, not to say presumptuous, to suit Bolivar and Sucre.

The better to control the situation, the former went up to La Paz and the latter to Chuquisaca, the capital, where a Congress was to assemble for the purpose of imparting a more orderly turn to affairs.