Partido (region)

Partido (lit. '"party"') was a

The term referred to 18th and 19th-century land regions that consisted of mature dispersed settlements but which had not yet been formally incorporated as hamlets. Though similar to today's municipality, partidos were under the control of a town or city government whose seat was, at times, a day's walk, or longer, away.^[4]

Argentina

In

Puerto Rico

"Partido" was the term used in Spanish colonial times for various scarcely populated regions in Puerto Rico, including

In the case of Ponce, the region was a partido in 1670, when a chapel was built and nearby neighbors started to build around it, converting the dispersed settlement into a hamlet.^[6][7] However, it continued to depend on the cabildo at the Villa de San Germán for all of its judicial and administrative matters.^[8][9] Later, once the hamlet had grown it, was allowed to build its own Cabildo and run its own affairs independent from San German. The forming of its own cabildo represented the founding of a municipal corporation, at which point it was no longer referred to as partido and became a municipality henceforth.^{[10][11][12][13][14]}

See also

• Teniente a guerra
• Alcalde
• Alcalde ordinario
• Cabildo
• Regidor
• Corregidor
• Ayuntamiento
• Corregimiento
• Santa Hermandad
• Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad

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