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The reduction colonial peoples

Comalapa Itzapa San Andrés Parra, Patzicía, Patzun Acatenango, San Antonio Nejapa, Tecpán, Santa Apolonia, San Martín Jilotepeque, and Poaquil Balanyá were some places that the Spanish crown lands endowed for the payment of taxes. The registration became the indispensable mechanism for tax collection and organization of the parcels of the Spanish.

Although foundations, population movements ceased and territorial conflicts persisted between lineages, a product of constant transfers. An example of this was the seventeenth century by Xpansay, heir to the family lineage prestigious Iximché against Sanon of Patzicía.

To identify their land, family’s invocations used as the Virgin de Concepción, Santiago, Santa Ana and San Andres. This combination of land, family and endowed beliefs financial and organizational support to the fraternities those were responsible for the festivities.

At the end of the sixteenth century other Spanish families of the conquerors settled in cattle ranches in the vicinity of those towns. Your realization and impoverishment of life joined the indigenous communities, despite the Crown prohibited from approaching them. That presence Zaragoza was founded only in 1767, as a Spanish villa.

The purpose of the establishment of the Republic

With independence, the republican regime established its relationship with the municipalities and their mayors. Although new jurisdiction covers the same territory as the colonial peoples, its contours were changed at the whim of nineteenth-century presidents.

Ladinos, some heirs of the Spanish landowners, remained in the towns illegally, but the republican regime admitted them and gave them authority to govern what was required of the Cakchiquel. This encouraged differences between indigenous and ladino: Parallel authorities (two simultaneous municipal), different brotherhoods and political conditions pertaining to the national economy and the nineteenth century. Read the rest of this entry »