Abstract

CASTRO OLANETA, Isabel  and  CARMIGNANI, Leticia. The Mountains of Santiago and the Catamarca Valley (Governorate of Tucuman) in the Early Seventeenth Century: Reflecting on a New Regionalization. Prohistoria [online]. 2017, vol.27, pp.05-22. ISSN 1851-9504.

We present here the analysis of a report dated on February 1607, as a result of the Visit to the district of the Sierra -dependent and part of the jurisdiction of the City of Santiago del Estero, which was conducted by the "Teniente de Naturales" Francisco de Betanzos, who, by order of Governor of Tucuman Alonso de Ribera, visited the land and applied the Abreu´s Ordinances to make reparations to the Indians. The visit includes information about Catamarca Valley and the eastern hillside of Ancasti and Alto-Gracian mountains, the indigenous societies and the "encomiendas". This analysis allows us to propose a new regionalization for Governorate of Tucuman and a possible economic complementarity of the spaces used by the "encomenderos" in the early colonial period

Keywords : Early colonial period; Santiago del Estero; Catamarca Valley; Región; Encomiendas.

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