Spain–Venezuela relations
News of Spanish losses in the 1808 Napoleonic Wars soon reached Latin America, but only on 19 April 1810 did the "cabildo" (city council) of Caracas decide to follow the example set by the Spanish provinces two years earlier. On 5 July 1811, seven of the ten provinces of the Captaincy General of Venezuela declared their independence in the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence. The First Republic of Venezuela was lost in 1812 following the 1812 Caracas earthquake and the Battle of La Victoria (1812). Simón Bolívar led an "Admirable Campaign" to retake Venezuela, establishing the Second Republic of Venezuela in 1813, but this did not last long either, falling to a combination of a local uprising and Spanish royalist reconquest.
Portuguesa (state)
In the late nineteenth century, the Restorative Revolution returned to the country's political divisions in 20 states and, consequently, Portuguesa and Cojedes were again Zamora. Finally, on August 5, 1909 was enacted the Constitution, which stated that Venezuela would be made by a Federal District, two federal territories and 20 states, one of which would be Portuguesa.