| In Ecuador, faced with these lacunae, the indigenous peoples have opted for self-advancement in the matter of justice, via their own familiar bodies, the traditional cabildos and community assemblies. |
| In this form tourists could take home a memento of the parades and dances staged by Afro-Cuban cabildos. |
| The process of organizing and legitimizing cabildos or capitanías, the local form of self government, is well underway, although in certain areas judicial recognition of territory and authority is still pending. |
| When slaves were drumming and dancing in the cabildos, Spanish colonial masters thought that they were honouring the saints. |
| During the War of Independence the main cities and their surrounding countrysides became provinces though the intervention of their cabildos. |
| The approximately 3,000 Embera-Katío People are organized in Minor cabildos which in turn are grouped together in three Major cabildos responding to the major waterways-the Sinú, Verde and Esmeralda Rivers. |
