Encomendero | Spanish policy holder | Britannica
Other articles where Encomendero is discussed: history of Latin America: Indians and Spaniards: …there were indigenous units; the encomendero (holder of the grant) could at least initially receive only what the ruler had received before him. The larger islands were inhabited by the Arawak, a sedentary if modestly developed people with kingdoms, rulers, nobles, and obligatory labour mechanisms.