corregimiento

noun koh-rreh-hee-MYEN-toh Rare

Origin: From corregir, 'to correct/govern,' from Latin corrigere.

Also means

administrative district (historical/Latin America)

Usage Note

Corregimiento was the basic administrative division of colonial Spanish America, headed by a corregidor. Today it survives as a sub-municipal administrative unit in Panama and Colombia. The term is chiefly historical in Spain and most other Spanish-speaking countries, where other territorial divisions (municipio, parroquia) have replaced it.

Examples

"El corregimiento fue creado durante la época colonial."

Natural Translation

The corregimiento was created during the colonial era.

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