Resumen

JIMENEZ ABOLLADO, Francisco Luis. Reduction of Unfaithful Indians in Chol's Mountains: The Expedition of the Master Sergeant Miguel Rodriguez Camilo in 1699. Estud. cult. maya [online]. 2010, vol.35, pp.91-110. ISSN 0185-2574.

In 1699, between February and March, the Sergeant Major don Miguel Rodríguez Camilo carried out an entrada to the Mountain of the Chol. He was the Castellano of the Castillo de San Felipe del Golfo Dulce and Major Mayor of the Puerto de Santo Tomás de Castilla and of the village of San Pedro Amatique. The entrada was another incursion in these territories of the Mayan south-east to reduce the so called "unfaithful Indians" and escaped spread by the area and envoy from the Audiencia of Guatemala. The difference between this entrada with the previous ones was the fact that on that in this occasion there was no presence of religious in the same one. Nevertheless, the purpose was the reduction of the above mentioned Indians, and the penetration took place with full aggressiveness for incorporating the immediate area into the Mountains of the Chol, The Petén, into the colonial control.

Palabras llave : Chol Manché; Expedition; Reduction; Mopanes; Mountain; Peten.