New Navarre (Spanish: Nueva Navarra) was a province in the Provincias Internas and under the jurisdiction of the Royal Audience of Guadalajara (Real Audiencia of Guadalajara) of Viceroyalty of New Spain. By 1806, the province was generally recognized as Sonora or Nueva Navarra, with the capital in Arispe, and including the area comprising Sinaloa (de Iriarte, 1806). After Independence Sonora y Sinaloa became one of the constituent states of the Mexican Republic. The Sonoran Desert ecoregion covers much of the state.