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The Supreme Junta (or Junta Suprema de Caracas) was the institution that governed the Captaincy General of Venezuela following the forced resignation of the Captain General Vicente Emparan on April 19, 1810, marking the beginning of the Venezuelan War of Independence. It lasted until March 2, 1811, when the first constituent congress of the First Republic of Venezuela was established.
Following the events of the Revolution of April 19, 1810, the commanding General and other colonial officials designated by Joseph Bonaparte to oversee the Captaincy General of Venezuela, were deposed by an expanded municipal government in Caracas that called itself: the Supreme Junta to Preserve the Rights of Ferdinand VII (La Suprema Junta Conservadora de los Derechos de Fernando VII).
One of the first measures of revolutionaries after securing the support of six provinces was to send diplomatic missions abroad to seek support for the revolution and the recognition of the Supreme Junta of Caracas as the legitimate councilor of Venezuela in the absence of the King. To London were sent Simon Bolivar and Luis Lopez Mendez with Andres Bello as secretary, which left La Guaira in early June 1810. At the United States were Juan Vicente Bolívar Palacios, brother of the Liberator, Jose Rafael Revenga and Telesforo Orea who obtained some success in interesting the government of that country to support the Supreme Junta.