Colchagua Partido
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| Capital | Villa de San Fernando de Tinguiririca | ||||||||
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The Colchagua Partido was an administrative division of the Spanish Empire, within the Captaincy General of Chile. It was created in 1786 from the territory of and its capital was the Villa de San Fernando de Tinguiririca. The district was commanded by a partido subdelegate, who presided over the local council, or cabildo. In 1793 the partido was reorganized after the seceded from it.
Colchagua Partido was also a part of the Santiago Intendencia.
It existed as an administrative district until the 1820s, when Chile declared independence from Spain. The partido was not included in the Constitution of 1823 and its territory went on to become the of Chile.
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- Vicente Carvallo Goyeneche. Descripción Histórico Geografía del Reino de Chile precedida de una biografía del autor por don Miguel L. Amunátegui. Tomos III En: Colección de Historiadores de Chile y documentos relativos a la Historia Nacional. Tomo X. Santiago de Chile. 1875
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