Socio-cultural achievements of the barbacoas family through the analysis of correspondence from 1610

Abstract

At the beginning of the XVII century, one of the greatest attacks on the provinces of the Barbacoas began,sub-jugating, dominating and exterminating ethnic groups. Linguistically, these attacks we due to the great family Barbacoas - Talamanca (Cerón Solarte, 2004). The Sindagua were the most representative of this community that, due to its unconquered status, provides most records for research. The objective of the study was to reconstruct the Barbacoas language and certain sociocultural aspects of the ethnic group, through the topon-ymic and anthropomorphic analysis or anthropological onomastic analysis, of the Colombo-Ecuadorian pacific region at the time of the Spanish conquest. The article is supported by documentation found in the General Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain. Through these, certain social, cultural and political aspects of the ethnic group are interpreted. The research was conducted under a qualitative approach, using primary and secondary documentary sources. The technique that was applied in the study was the analysis of primary documentation, since it is a valuable source of research to reveal still unknown traits of indigenous families. A relevant conclu-sion is related to the fact that the indigenous communities of the Colombian Pacific coast of Nariño, Cauca and the north of Ecuador, maintain strong sociocultural, political and economic ties, in spite of the disruption caused by the different Hispanic incursions of the XVI - XVII centuries. This was decisive in ensuring that the great family Barbacoas - Talamanca was not exterminated culturally.