{{short description|Administrative subdivision in various countries}} {{italic title}} {{use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} [[File:Ponce City Hall.JPG|thumb|right|In Ponce, Puerto Rico, creation of the [[Cabildo (council)|cabildo]] in 1692, marked the end of the "partido" status and the beginning of the municipality. Today's (2019) [[Ponce City Hall]], above, was built later, in 1846.]]
'''Partido''' ({{IPA|es|paɾˈtiðo}}; {{lit|party}}) was a [[Spanish Empire|Spanish colonial]] term that referred to a governed local administrative region, roughly equivalent to today's [[municipality]] in terms of rural land areas included,<ref>
Fay Fowlie de Flores. ''Ponce, Perla del Sur: Una Bibliográfica Anotada.'' Second Edition. 1997. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce. p. 264. Item 1322. {{LCCN|9275480}}</ref><ref>Francisco A. Scarano. "Inmigración y estructura de clases: los hacendados de Ponce, 1815-1845." ''Inmigración y Clases Sociales de Puerto Rico del Siglo XIX.'' pp. 21-66. Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico: Huracán. 1981. (Colegio Universitario Tecnológico de Ponce, CUTPO).</ref> and used in the [[Kingdom of Castile|Spanish]] kingdoms in [[the Americas]] during the times of the [[Spanish Empire]]. It was "the territory or district composed of a jurisdiction or administration from a main city."<ref>Luis Caldera Ortiz. ''Nuevos hallazgos sobre el origen de Ponce.'' Lajas, Puerto Rico: Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones del Suroeste de Puerto Rico. 2019. p. 56. {{ISBN|9781075058325}}</ref>
The term referred to 18th and 19th-century land regions that consisted of mature [[dispersed settlement]]s but which had not yet been formally incorporated as [[Hamlet (place)|hamlet]]s. 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.<ref>Salvador Brau. ''La fundación de Ponce.'' Ponce, Puerto Rico: Tipografia Comercial "La Democracia". 1909. pp. 16-17.</ref>
==Argentina== In [[Argentina]], the ''[[Partidos of Buenos Aires|partidos]]'' are the second-level administrative subdivision in the [[Province of Buenos Aires]].
==Puerto Rico== "Partido" was the term used in Spanish colonial times for various scarcely populated regions in Puerto Rico, including [[Aguada, Puerto Rico|Aguada]], [[Ponce, Puerto Rico|Ponce]], [[Arecibo]], and [[Coamo]].<ref>Luis Caldera Ortiz. ''Nuevos Hallazgos sobre el Origen de Ponce.'' Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones del Sir Oeste de Puerto Rico. 2019. p. 56. {{ISBN|9781075058325}}</ref>
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 (place)|hamlet]].<ref>Dennis DeJesus-Rodriguez. ''Fundación de Ponce: 1678-1692.'' In, ''Hereditas: Revista de genealogía puertorriqueña.'' San Juan, Puerto Rico: Sociedad de Genealogía de Puerto Rico. Vol. 10. Issue 2. Year 2009. pp. 63-71.</ref><ref>Mariano Vidal Armstrong. ''Ponce: Notas para su historia.'' Comité Historia de los Pueblos. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1986. p. 12.</ref> However, it continued to depend on the [[Cabildo (council)|cabildo]] at the ''Villa de [[San Germán, Puerto Rico|San Germán]]'' for all of its judicial and administrative matters.<ref>Lorenzo A. Balasquide, ''Compendio Intrahistórico de Peñuelas'', San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial Cordillera, Inc., 1972, p. 51, footnote #23.</ref><ref>Aida R. Caro Costas. ''El Cabildo or Regimen Municipal Puertorriqueño en el Siglo XVIII: La Gestión Municipal Puertorriqueña'', Tomo II, San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1974, p. 38</ref> Later, once the hamlet had grown it, was allowed to build its own [[Cabildo (council)|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.<ref>Francisco Lluch Mora. ''Orígenes y Fundación de Ponce.'' San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial Plaza Mayor. Segunda Edición. 2006. p. 33.</ref><ref>Mariano Vidal Armstrong. ''Ponce: Notas para su Historia.'' San Juan, PR: Comité Historia de los Pueblos, Oficina de Preservación Histórica de Puerto Rico. Second Edition. 1986. p. 17.</ref><ref>Salvador Brau. ''La fundación de Ponce.'' Ponce, Puerto Rico: Taller Tipográfico Comercial "La Democracia". 1909. Reprinted at San Juan, Puerto Rico, at a later date. p. 4.</ref><ref>Francisco Luch Mora. ''Orígenes y Fundación de Ponce''. Editorial Plaza Mayor. 2006. pp. 29, 33.</ref><ref>José Leandro Montalvo-Guenard. In, [[Luis Fortuño Janeiro]]'s ''Album Histórico de Ponce: 1692-1963'' (Section: "Algo Sobre Ponce y su Fundación".) Ponce, Puerto Rico: Imprenta Fortuño, 1963. p. 11.</ref>
== See also == * [[Teniente a guerra]] * [[Alcalde]] * [[Alcalde ordinario]] * [[Cabildo (council)|Cabildo]] * [[Regidor]] * [[Corregidor (position)|Corregidor]] * [[Ayuntamiento]] * [[Corregimiento]] * [[Santa Hermandad]] * [[Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad]]
== References == {{reflist}}
== Further reading == * [[Clarence H. Haring|Haring, C. H.]], ''The Spanish Empire in America''. New York, Oxford University Press, 1947. * O'Callaghan, Joseph F. ''A History of Medieval Spain''. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1975. {{ISBN|0801408806}}
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