Cañete, a "villa" to the Kingdom conquest

Abstract

Building cities in the carly viceroyalty period in Perú had a target, to establish and to settle a vice kingdom in these lands, vassel of a kingdom. The military conquest was not as important as the burocratic one. During XVI century, the foundations of a new political order were created and it respected and combined the former reality and the new one: cities were settled, conquerors had to obey imperial laws and a constant dealing with the local population was established. The creation of Cañete “villa” is the excuse for analizing this historical process in order to understand the Spanish success in this land and why the Viceroyalty period lasted almost three hundred years.