Alonso de Ribera y Zambrano was a Spanish soldier and twice Spanish royal governor of Chile.
Alonso de Ribera
Alonso García Ramón, Alonso de Ribera and Luis Merlo de la Fuente, 1646
Alonso de Ribera highway in Chile
The Royal Governor of Chile ruled over the Spanish colonial administrative district called the Captaincy General of Chile, and as a result the Royal Governor also held the title of a Captain General. There were 66 such governors or captains during the Spanish conquest and the later periods of Spanish-centered colonialism. Since the first Spanish–Mapuche parliaments in the 17th century it became an almost mandatory tradition for each governor to arrange a parliament with the Mapuches.
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