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Convictorio de San Carlos
College in Lima, Peru / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Real Convictorio de San Carlos, or Convictorio de San Carlos after independence, was a college in Lima created at the end of the Viceroyalty of Peru and which survived until the first decades of the Peruvian Republic.
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It was housed at the Casona de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. A conservative school, it had a longstanding rivalry with the more liberal Guadalupe College.[1][2]
It was established in 1770 by a royal decree of Viceroy Manuel de Amat y Junyent[3] that merged the defunct colleges of San Martín and San Felipe after the expulsion of the Jesuits.[1] It was closed in October 1817, but later reopened after the independence of Peru, in 1822.[1] After its reopening, it worked without issues until 1866, when it became the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of the National University of San Marcos.[1]