Between Wealth and Poverty

• Autores: Castañeda Murga, Juan, Trujillo Coronado, Isaac
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.ucsp.edu.pe:article/1681
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.ucsp.edu.pe/index.php/Allpanchis/article/view/1681
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Trujillo; representation; encomenderos; cities; representación; ciudades

This research analyzes how the city of Trujillo was represented by local authorities, neighbors and chroniclers during the second half of the 16th century, in a context where the monarchy was beginning to establish itself bureaucratically in the Peruvian viceroyalty and to show the first results of the application of the new laws. The city of Trujillo began to be seen as a fertile place during the first years of the conquest, but, only a few years later, due to a period of economic and demographic crisis caused by the creation of the village of Saña, which attracted the interest of the encomenderos who did not hesitate to abandon it and settle in it, transformed the representation of this city. Although the crisis was overcome a decade later, the encomenderos were economically harmed, unlike those who were dedicated to commerce. It is argued that the representation of the city of Trujillo as an impoverished city was generated by those who, in order to obtain economic support from the viceregal authorities, did not hesitate to spread it openly.