corregimiento
Corregimiento (Spanish: [korexiˈmjento]; Catalan: Corregiment, IPA: [kurəʒiˈmen]) is a Spanish term used for country subdivisions for royal administrative purposes, ensuring districts were under crown control as opposed to local elites. A corregimiento was usually headed by a corregidor.
district in which the Corregidor exercised his judicial, political-administrative and military jurisdiction. Originally from the Crown of Castile and applied successively throughout the territory of the Spanish empire
former administrative territorial entity administrative territorial entity of the Spanish Empire administrative territorial entity designation for an administrative territorial entity