# Partido (region)

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Administrative subdivision in various countries

In Ponce, Puerto Rico, creation of the [cabildo](/source/Cabildo_(council)) in 1692, marked the end of the "partido" status and the beginning of the municipality. Today's (2019) [Ponce City Hall](/source/Ponce_City_Hall), above, was built later, in 1846.

**Partido** (Spanish pronunciation: [\[paɾˈtiðo\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Spanish); lit. 'party') was a [Spanish colonial](/source/Spanish_Empire) term that referred to a governed local administrative region, roughly equivalent to today's [municipality](/source/Municipality) in terms of rural land areas included,[1][2] and used in the [Spanish](/source/Kingdom_of_Castile) kingdoms in [the Americas](/source/The_Americas) during the times of the [Spanish Empire](/source/Spanish_Empire). It was "the territory or district composed of a jurisdiction or administration from a main city."[3]

The term referred to 18th and 19th-century land regions that consisted of mature [dispersed settlements](/source/Dispersed_settlement) but which had not yet been formally incorporated as [hamlets](/source/Hamlet_(place)). 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 [Argentina](/source/Argentina), the *[partidos](/source/Partidos_of_Buenos_Aires)* are the second-level administrative subdivision in the [Province of Buenos Aires](/source/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](/source/Aguada%2C_Puerto_Rico), [Ponce](/source/Ponce%2C_Puerto_Rico), [Arecibo](/source/Arecibo), and [Coamo](/source/Coamo).[5]

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](/source/Dispersed_settlement) into a [hamlet](/source/Hamlet_(place)).[6][7] However, it continued to depend on the [cabildo](/source/Cabildo_(council)) at the *Villa de [San Germán](/source/San_Germ%C3%A1n%2C_Puerto_Rico)* for all of its judicial and administrative matters.[8][9] Later, once the hamlet had grown it, was allowed to build its own [Cabildo](/source/Cabildo_(council)) 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](/source/Municipality) henceforth.[10][11][12][13][14]

## See also

- [Teniente a guerra](/source/Teniente_a_guerra)

- [Alcalde](/source/Alcalde)

- [Alcalde ordinario](/source/Alcalde_ordinario)

- [Cabildo](/source/Cabildo_(council))

- [Regidor](/source/Regidor)

- [Corregidor](/source/Corregidor_(position))

- [Ayuntamiento](/source/Ayuntamiento)

- [Corregimiento](/source/Corregimiento)

- [Santa Hermandad](/source/Santa_Hermandad)

- [Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad](/source/Alcalde_de_la_Santa_Hermandad)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** 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](/source/LCCN_(identifier)) [92-75480](https://www.loc.gov/item/92075480)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** 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).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** 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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781075058325](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781075058325)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Salvador Brau. *La fundación de Ponce.* Ponce, Puerto Rico: Tipografia Comercial "La Democracia". 1909. pp. 16-17.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** 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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781075058325](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781075058325)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** 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.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Mariano Vidal Armstrong. *Ponce: Notas para su historia.* Comité Historia de los Pueblos. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1986. p. 12.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Lorenzo A. Balasquide, *Compendio Intrahistórico de Peñuelas*, San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial Cordillera, Inc., 1972, p. 51, footnote #23.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** 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

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Francisco Lluch Mora. *Orígenes y Fundación de Ponce.* San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial Plaza Mayor. Segunda Edición. 2006. p. 33.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** 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.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** 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.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** Francisco Luch Mora. *Orígenes y Fundación de Ponce*. Editorial Plaza Mayor. 2006. pp. 29, 33.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** José Leandro Montalvo-Guenard. In, [Luis Fortuño Janeiro](/source/Luis_Fortu%C3%B1o_Janeiro)'s *Album Histórico de Ponce: 1692-1963* (Section: "Algo Sobre Ponce y su Fundación".) Ponce, Puerto Rico: Imprenta Fortuño, 1963. p. 11.

## Further reading

- [Haring, C. H.](/source/Clarence_H._Haring), *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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0801408806](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0801408806)

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