Corregidor (position)
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For the Philippine island, see Corregidor. For the Portuguese equivalent, see Corregedor.
A corregidor (Spanish: [korexiˈðoɾ]) was a local administrative and judicial official in Spanish Empire. They were the representatives of the royal jurisdiction over a town and its district.
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He was the highest authority of a corregimiento. In the Spanish Americas and the Spanish Philippines, a corregidor was often called an alcalde mayor.[1] They began to be appointed in Pre-Spanish Imperial fourteenth century Castile.