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[[File:Enelaboracion.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Administrative organisation of South and Central America in the 18<sup>th</sup> century. America. [XXX PDF]. [XXX Datos]. [XXX Interactivo].]]
[[File:Enelaboracion.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Administrative and territorial Borbonic organization. Spain. [XXX PDF]. [XXX Datos]. [XXX Interactivo].]]
The Bourbons introduced a unitary and centralist State, which sought efficiency against the administrative dispersion of the Habsburgs. The Peninsula was divided into 32 provinces, following the French influence, especially in Castile (24 provinces); those of the crown of Aragon, Navarra and the Basque territories were kept as single provinces. In the Central Administration, they took the model of ministries, which they called ''secretarías de despacho''. The ''Decretos de Nueva Planta'' eliminated the regional privileged status (''foralidad'') in the crown of Aragon, although not in Navarra or the Basque provinces, nor for the feudal rights of the bishop of Urgel over Andorra.<br>
