When the bloody wars of South American independence from Spain were waged, these countries, per se, did not exist. Mosr of the regional colonies that would become nation-states certainly didn't have their nation-state names then, either.
However, the cities and so on had their names. So here is the city that shares the name of Patrick O'Brian's admired naturalist and ship's doctor, Stephen Maturin.
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