“No soy portugués, sino criollo de esta provincia de donde es mi madre”.

Barreto, Gleydi Sullón2022-07-182022-07-182022-07-022027-4688PURE: 34807398PURE UUID: cc3959c6-a1d8-42db-b017-249a0e761ef2ORCID: /0000-0003-3789-1495/work/116020795Scopus: 85135753464http://hdl.handle.net/10362/142060UIDB/04666/2020 UIDP/04666/2020This article focuses on case studies, analyzes the way in which these sons and daughters of Portuguese who were born in Peruvian territory, managed to develop their activities quite naturally. Although, from the legal point of view, they were considered natural from the kingdoms of Spain; in practice, they were still descendants of foreigners. This research addresses, on the one hand, the strategies that their parents used to consol-idate the insertion of the family in the community; and on the other hand, the fields of initiative and action of our characters, who achieved full assimilation in the land of adoption of their parents, and in many cases a rapid and efficient social ascension.23235049spaViceroyalty of Peru16th and 17th centuriesfamily strategyPortugueseidentifications“No soy portugués, sino criollo de esta provincia de donde es mi madre”.“I am not Portuguese, but creole of this province where my mother is from”.Daughters and sons of Portuguese born in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1570-1700.journal article10.22380/20274688.2311Hijas e hijos de portugueses nacidos en el Virreinato del Perú, 1570-1700.https://revistas.icanh.gov.co/index.php/fh/article/view/2311