In the 1570s, the Spanish viceroy ordered the entire Native American population of what is now Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador—a settled peasantry of more than a million people—to move in to newly-built towns designed according to a single, universal plan. The towns were called reducciones de indios, from the Spanish verb reducir, meaning to reduce, subdue, resettle, or convert.
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机译：1570年代，西班牙总督命令现在的玻利维亚，秘鲁和厄瓜多尔（这是一个定居的农民，超过100万人）的全部美洲原住民迁移到按照一个单一的总体计划设计的新建城镇。这些城镇在西班牙语中被称为“ reducciones de indios”，意为减少，制服，安置或转换。
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