Ángel de Peredo was born in 1623, in the small town of Queveda in Cantabria

Cantabria

Cantabria is a Spanish historical region and autonomous community with Santander as its capital city. It is bordered on the east by the Basque Autonomous Community , on the south by Castile and León , on the west by the Principality of Asturias, and on the north by the Cantabrian Sea.Cantabria...

, Spain

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, and was a Knight of the Order of Santiago

Order of Santiago

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.

He was the President of the Real Audiencia of Chile

Real Audiencia of Chile

Royal Audience of Santiago :-Structure:Law XII of Title XV of Book II of the Recopilación de Leyes de las Indias of 1680—which reproduces Philip IV's decree of February 17, 1609—describes the limits and functions of the Audiencia.In the city of Santiago de Chile shall...

 and then temporary Royal Governor of Chile

Royal Governor of Chile

The Royal Governor of Chile ruled over the Spanish colonial administrative district known as the Kingdom of Chile. This district was also called the Captaincy General of Chile, and as a result the Royal Governor also held the title of a Captain General...

 from May 1662 to February of 1664. During his government he founded the city of Santa Maria de Guadalupe

Lota, Chile

Lota is a city and commune located in the center of the Chile on the Gulf of Arauco. It lies within the Concepción Province of the Biobío Region.-History:...

 near the fortress of San Miguel Arcángel de Colcura, built previously by Pedro Porter Casanate

Pedro Porter Casanate

Admiral Pedro Porter y Casanate was a Spanish sailor, soldier, explorer of California and Royal Governor of Chile from 1656 to 1662.-Early life:...

 south east of the modern city of Lota

Lota, Chile

Lota is a city and commune located in the center of the Chile on the Gulf of Arauco. It lies within the Concepción Province of the Biobío Region.-History:...

 in the valley of Colcura.

At the end of his governorship the new governor Francisco de Meneses Brito

Francisco de Meneses Brito

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 accused Peredo of creating more places for officials than the royal army needed and of selling the positions. He ordered his arrest, but Peredo managed to escape from Chile. Meneses also attacked the friends of Peredo, among them the Oidor

Oidor

Oidor is the Spanish name of the member judge of the Royal Audiencias and Chancillerías, originally courts of Kingdom of Castile, which became the highest organs of justice within the Spanish Empire...

 Alonso de Solórzano y Velasco who opposed the measures of the new Governor. In reply Meneses demoted him from his position and exiled him.

Peredo became governor of Tucumán Province

Tucumán Province

Tucumán is the most densely populated, and the smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina. Located in the northwest of the country, the capital is San Miguel de Tucumán, often shortened to Tucumán. Neighboring provinces are, clockwise from the north: Salta, Santiago del Estero and...

 between 1670 and 1674. In 1673 he sent a large punitive expedition against the Mocoví

Mocoví(tribe)

The Mocoví are an indigenous tribe of the Gran Chaco. They live in Chaco Province and Santa Fe Province of Argentina.- External links :*...

 and other tribes of the Gran Chaco

Gran Chaco

The Gran Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, where it is connected with the Pantanal region...

, who had had been raiding the province.

Sources

• Francisco Solano Asta Buruaga y Cienfuegos, Diccionario geográfico de la República de Chile, Pg 387-388