This article analyzes the continuities and ruptures between the pre-Hispanic and colonial forms of territorial organization, the legacy of which can still be seen in the physical political-administrative divisions of contemporary Colombia. The article is based on studies on this subject already conducted in central Colombia (the colonial provinces of Santafé and Pamplona, and the area over which the old city of Tunja had jurisdiction), the Caribbean plains (colonial provinces of Cartagena and Santa Marta), and the contemporary Colombian Southwest (comprised of the province of Popayan in the colonial period). The study highlights the importance of considering territoriality from a long-term perspective, which in some ways how it has been managed, and of centering the analysis on the physical territory and not only on the territorial practices of one or another of the groups that have inhabited it. Based on this, the article emphasizes the analytical advantages of not limiting the study of this phenomenon to the Republican or Colonial period, but of considering it in terms of when a particular territory was occupied, which in turn extends its study back to the period commonly known as "pre-Hispanic".
En este artículo estudiamos los nombres de personas incluidos en numeraciones o padrones de grupos indígenas Muisca y Páez de las audiencias de Santafé y Quito en el período colonial. Al contextualizar la información que proporcionan mediante la consulta de otro tipo de documentos, tales como procesos judiciales y vocabularios o diccionarios de la época, es posible apreciar la vinculación entre los nombres y la estructura social de la cual formaban parte. En su conjunto, los problemas que tratamos remiten a la forma como las estructuras nominativas y relacionales que se expresan en los nombres reflejan aspectos centrales de la organización social.
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