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- Dictionaryalcalde/alˈkaldi/
noun
- 1. a magistrate or mayor in a Spanish, Portuguese, or Latin American town.
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Alcalde is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions. An alcalde was, in the absence of a corregidor, the presiding officer of the Castilian cabildo (the municipal council) and judge of first instance of a town. Alcaldes were elected annually, without the right to reelection for two or three years, by the regidores (council members) of the mun... Wikipedia