sentences:  In 1781, the "encomienda" came to an end when Firavitoba was granted the higher status of parish ("parroquia"), with a mayor and a priest in residence.The indigenous inhabitants were transferred to Nobsa to serve out the remainder of their "encomienda" obligations, but were returned before the popular uprising against the Spanish authorities in the Viceroyalty of New Granada known as the "Revolt of the Comuneros", from May through October of that year, although they lost some of their land.Several years after the revolt and Colombian Declaration of Independence on July 20, 1810 in Santa Fé de Bogotá came the Spanish reconquest of New Granada in 1815–1816, under General Pablo Morillo.