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Many of these early rituals took place within cabildos — Spanish-imposed religious meetings meant to socialize enslaved people into Catholicism.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2025

The vocabulary of the protests speaks to the people: Neighbors are discussing solutions at cabildos, or town hall–style meetings, and on Oct.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2019

A large bureaucracy administered the affairs of its church and state, and the only elected bodies were local town councils, or cabildos.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

A few villas or towns had their elective cabildos, or town councils, and a modicum of self government.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene

The city creoles, thanks to an advanced communal spirit, aroused by the establishment of the cabildos or Spanish town council, were diligently at work on their own municipal problems.

From The Social Evolution of the Argentine Republic by Quesada, Ernesto