Cabildo (council)
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A cabildo or ayuntamiento was a Spanish colonial and early postcolonial administrative council that governed a municipality. Cabildos were sometimes appointed, sometimes elected, but were considered t
1810 meeting of the cabildo in Buenos Aires
Depiction of the main cabildo buildings of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.
Cabildo of Salta, Argentina.
Vargas, José María; Cevallos García, Gabriel and others investigators. (1646)
The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata or Viceroyalty of the River Plate was the last to be organised and also the shortest-lived viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It was established
Cabildo (council)
…Peru which had a cabildo and were ruled following this municipal form of local government during the Spanish colonial period. Since the creation of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, its territory was divided into two real audiencias or kingdoms: Río de la Plata and Charcas. The following list shows the settlements (cities and…
William Beresford surrendering to Santiago de Liniers during the British Invasions to the Río de la Plata.
Picture of Pedro Domingo Murillo, main leader of the La Paz Revolution.
Pedro de Cevallos
Portrait of José de Gálvez