De la conformación de los pueblos de indios al surgimiento de las parroquias de vecinos. El caso del altiplano cundiboyacense

In the colonial world, the terms "parroquia", to refer to neighboring villages, and "doctrina", to name the indigenous villages, alluded to a religious vision of space inherited from the Iberian peninsula.

Nevertheless, these spatial entities permitted the maintenance of the original model of the division of republics conceived under moulds of ethnic separation that have characterized the formal organization of colonial society.

Despite the aforementioned, the initial conformation of the indigenous villages became more complex with the organization of reservations and afterwards with the policies of reduction and incorporation of the indigenous villages. By the XVIII century, the Cundinamarca and Boyacá high plateau (two provinces of the viceroyalty of Nueva Granada) offered a general overview of the growth of the "parroquias" and the reduction of the reservations.