• The corregimiento (Spanish: [korexiˈmjento]) de Potosí was a territorial entity of the Spanish Empire in the Viceroyalty of Peru, located in what is now...
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    Potosí, known as Villa Imperial de Potosí in the colonial period, is the capital city and a municipality of the Department of Potosí in Bolivia. It is...
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  • containing silver ore near Potosi Cerro Panizos, shield-shaped volcano in Potosí Department (shared with Argentina) Cerro Rico, Potosí Department Cerro Saxani...
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    Nombre de Dios (Spanish: "Name of God") is a city and corregimiento in Santa Isabel District, Colón Province, Panama, on the Atlantic coast of Panama in...
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    silver from Buenos Aires and tried to direct exports out of Potosí. The system of corregimientos to mark the subdivisions of the territory was ended in 1782...
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    mines of Potosí and Oruro, in the Highlands of the "Audiencia of Charcas", to the British and Dutch pirates operating in the Corregimiento de Arica. Thus...
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    single silver mountain, the Cerro Rico de Potosí, which is still producing silver in the 21st century. Potosí (founded 1545) was in the zone of dense...
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    Cusco (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Moscow, Russia La Paz, Bolivia Potosí, Bolivia Puebla, Mexico Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Samarkand, Uzbekistan San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Santa Barbara...
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    Nariño; and by "department corregimientos" which is a special combined functions between a presidential power and a corregimiento. The reason for this classification...
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    jurisdiction in the institution of Corregimiento, which was between the Audiencia and town councils. Corregimiento expanded "royal authority from the...
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    both the silver mine at Potosí and the mercury mine at Huancavelica. He established administrative districts of corregimiento, and resettled native Andeans...
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    in the silver mines in Potosí. One-seventh of the labor force, about 13,500 men, worked alternating six-month shifts in Potosí. Additional levies of Andean...
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    Actopan were Hernando Alonso and Juan González Ponce de León. Ixcuinquitlapilco became a corregimiento in 1531, with Actopan depending on it. Subsequently...
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    Recurso de apelación interpuesto contra la sentencia de 10 de septiembre de 2004, proferida por el Tribunal Administrativo del Chocó. Colombia: Consejo de Estado...
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    haciendas, also promoting work and commercial activities within the corregimientos. The purpose of these measures was to encourage consumption and currency...
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  • Amador Guerrero, first President Amelia Denis de Icaza (corregimiento) – Panamanian romantic poet Amelia Denis de Icaza Antón – Antón Martín, Spanish explorer...
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  • Gran Colombia against the Peruvians. "Have you understood that the Corregimiento de Jaén has been occupied by those from Peru; and that Maynas belongs...
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  • Cisneros – El Limón Túnel de la quiebra Chapel de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, corregimiento de Sabaletas Estación de Los Monos Estación del ferrocarril...
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    into partidos (counties) which were also known by the older term of corregimientos. The partidos were further divided into distritos (districts) akin to...
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    stalled project of replacing the older corregimientos and alcaldías mayores with intendants. Gálvez appointed Teodoro de Croix as the first Commander General...
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