Corregimiento (Spanish: [korexiˈmjento]; Catalan: Corregiment, IPA: [kurəʒiˈmen]) is a Spanish term used for country subdivisions for royal administrative purposes, ensuring districts were under crown control as opposed to local elites. A corregimiento was usually headed by a corregidor.
In Old Castilecorregimientos existed since the 13th century and were the administrative divisions of the Junta General de las Siete Merindades de Castilla Vieja.[1] After the Nueva Planta decrees under the rule of Philip V—the first Bourbon king of Spain, the corregidor was replaced by an intendant.[2]Corregimientos in Castile existed until 1835, the year in which the municipal administration was reorganized under Queen Isabel II.[3]
The corregimiento of Totonicapán and Huehuetenango was a division under the Audiencia of Guatemala from 1547 to 1678, when it was reorganised as an alcaldía mayor.[6]
Present-day corregimientos
Colombia
The corregimientos of Colombia are smaller units than the historical ones. The word is used for the population centers that don't reach the level of municipality. They are thus under a municipality or a department.[7]
Panama
The corregimientos of Panama are district subdivisions. They are led by the Representante de Corregimiento, also known as a corregidor.
^Rafael Sánchez Domingo, Las merindades de Castilla Vieja y su Junta General, La Olmeda, Burgos, 1994 ISBN84-7009-411-4
^Estrada Sánchez, Manuel (2006). Provincias y diputaciones: la construcción de la Cantabria contemporánea, (1799-1833). Ed. Universidad de Cantabria. p. 24. ISBN9788481024289.
^Vicent Giménez Chornet, Compte i raó: la hisenda municipal de la ciutat de València en el segle XVIII, Universitat de València, 2002, ISBN978-84-370-5399-8
^Eliseo Serrano Martín, El Matarraña y la Historia Moderna. Portal Aragon.
^Limón Aguirre, Fernando (2008). (PDF) (in Spanish). San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico: El Colegio de la Frontera Sur – Unidad San Cristóbal de Las Casas. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
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