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)
Alcalde
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Alcalde is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions. An alcalde was, in the absence of a corregidor, the presiding officer of the Castilian cabi
Cabildo (council)
…the cortes) because cities had a right to representation in them. In addition to the council members, the cabildo had one or two magistrates, the alcades, whom the regidores elected every January 1. Alcaldes served as judges of first instance in all criminal and civil cases and acted as presiding officers…
Mayan alcaldes from Guatemala, 1891