The value of the Juicio de Residencia as a documentary source: structure, characteristics and peculiarities. The paradigm of Tabasco in the second half of the 17th Century

Abstract

The article focuses its main interest in presenting the possibilities that the juicio de residencia offers as a source for researchers in History, using as a reference the paradigmatic case of Tabasco, where we can see the constant effort of the authorities to collect information from the region on this type of judicial sources and, therefore, the value they have for the study of the region.