Ángel de Peredo

Ángel de Peredo (born 1623 in Queveda, Cantabria, Spain) was a Knight of the Order of Santiago.

He was the President of the

San Miguel Arcángel de Colcura, built previously by Pedro Porter Casanate south east of the modern city of Lota in the valley of Colcura

.

At the end of his governorship the new governor Francisco de Meneses Brito accused Peredo of creating more places for officials than the royal army needed and of selling the positions. He ordered his arrest, but Peredo managed to escape from Chile. Meneses also attacked the friends of Peredo, among them the Oidor Alonso de Solórzano y Velasco who opposed the measures of the new Governor. In reply Meneses demoted him from his position and exiled him.

Peredo became governor of

Mocoví and other tribes of the Gran Chaco

, who had been raiding the province.

Sources

Barros Arana, Diego (1885). "XVI". In Carlos Tomás Vicuña Mackenna (ed.). Historia Jeneral de Chile (in Spanish). Vol. V. Santiago, Chile: Rafael Jover.
Francisco Solano Asta Buruaga y Cienfuegos, Diccionario geográfico de la República de Chile, pp. 387–388
Medina, José Toribio (1906). Diccionario Biográfico Colonial de Chile (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Elzeviriana. p. 665.

Government offices
Preceded by Diego González	Royal Governor of Chile 1662–1664	Succeeded by Francisco de Meneses

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