The article propose an historical analysis of a commercial colonial initiative in the Corregimiento of Arica-Tarapacá (South of Viceroyalty of Perú) in the early seventeenth-century. Juan Donoso a Spanish neighbor (vecino) was the head of this successful economic initiative which introduced marine and agriculture products to the colonial market of the Corregimiento of Arica and of the Audiencia of Charcas. The developed of this economic network involved the work of indigenous and slaves, as well as close exchanges between native authoriries (curacas), priests and settlers. The colonial merchant Juan Donoso not only took care for his business, but also of the Andean regional evangelization. This evoke the close relationship between spiritual and material life the early colonial society. This article study historical sources about the post-toledan ...

This paper analyzes the early years of the priest Francisco Otal in the Archdiocese of Lima and La Plata. His ecclesiastical career, which led him to doctrinero in San Francisco de Chiuchiu to racionero of the Cathedral of La Plata, was preceded by a career as a musician and singer, helped by the interpretative strength og his record as tiple capon. It was this «officio of angels» which approached to Francisco de Otal to both the cathedral chapels of Lima and La Plata as to the prelates and members of church councils. As a consequence, his first appointment in Lima, in 1613, was very close and coincided with the early years of the process of extirpation of idolatry. Francisco Otal met its main protagonists, including the Archbishop Bartolomé Lobo Guerrero and other ecclesiastical authorities, deacons and field ground as Francisco de Avila that will surely...