
Este artículo analiza dos problemas vinculados con la configuración territorial de la provincia de Popayán en el período colonial. En primer lugar, considera la unidad provincial, teniendo en cuenta la gran diversidad de la provincia, que constituye una de sus características sobresalientes. Al respecto propone la hipótesis, basada en hallazgos arqueológicos, de que la unidad provincial sentó sus bases sobre estructuras prehispánicas de muy larga duración, que al tiempo que manifestaban una gran variedad, presentaban elementos cohesionadotes de carácter macro. En segundo lugar, estudia el proceso de la delimitación de la provincia y el establecimiento de la doble dependencia jurisdiccional que caracterizó su manejo político administrativo durante la colonia. Sobre este problema plantea que reflejó su mayor o menor articulación con el norte o con el sur, con el Nuevo Reino o con Quito y que no se trató de un proceso específico y aislado, sino que se articuló con los esfuerzos adelantados en Quito para situarse en una posición de autonomía frente al virreinato limeño. This article analyzes two problems related to the configuration of the province of Popayán during the colonial period. First, it considers the great diversity of the province, one of its characteristic features, and argues, using archeological findings, that the unity of the colonial province was based on long–established pre–Hispanic macro structures. Second, it studies the process of the province's delimitation and the establishment of a colonial dual jurisdictional dependency. This is explained as the result of its relationships and articulations with both the Kingdom of New Granada to the north, and Quito to the south. This phenomenon is not an isolated process but is related to the attempts by Quito to maintain autonomy from the Viceroyalty of Peru.
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