El cabildo de Talca como cabecera de corregimiento y de subdelegación en la gobernación de Chile (segunda mitad del siglo XVIII)

Abstract

This article studies the life in the cabildo of Talca (Chile) when it was the capital of the corregimiento and of the subdelegations in the 18th century. The objective was to unravel the relationship of the town council as a body with both corregidores and subdelegates with the purpose of analyzing in which way it exerted its prerogatives. This paper seeks to analyze whether, after the creation of the Maule sub-delegation, the ruling of the Talca cabildo was limited to the urban area, thus losing its jurisdiction over the entire partido.