Voluntary migrants. Indians entrusted the lost city of concepcion del Bermejo. Rio de la Plata. XVII century

Abstract

In this paper, we delve into the characteristics of the transfer of the residents of Concepcion del Bermejo to the city of Corrientes (River Plate) from 1630. For various reasons, including some linked to the advancement of the Chaco ethnic groups that center colonial city that belonged to the government of Buenos Aires was abandoned in the early seventeenth century. Neighbors with their families and entrusted Indians began a journey to the nearest town: Corrientes. We are interested in inquiring about the circumstances in which this mobilization of neighbors and Indians entrusted performed. We wonder among other things why the Indians accompanied their encomenderos in this transfer, rather than stay in their villages? How he received the city to which they migrated and what were the chances of insertion of the neighbors and people in a society already organized and their peculiarities? What characteristics did the lives of Indians who migrated to the new city? There are several sources located in different repositories that will bring us closer to some answers from Indian standards and neighbors, visits, capitular acts and other documents that reflect the vicissitudes and peculiarities of the transfer.