sentences:  Its governor was dependent on the Viceroyalty of Peru in Lima.In 1547, one of the soldiers of the German adventurer Nikolaus Federmann, Luis de Sanabria, had been granted administrative responsibility over the territories of Firavitoba, Cormechoque and Sichacá in the form of an "encomienda", so becoming the first "encomendero" over the communities there.His successor was Martín de Rojas, who assumed the role on marrying his daughter, Catalina de Sanabria y Macías, in 1577.