Teniente gobernador: Administrative officer of a small village or hamlet.

They refused to be photographed, and even the gobernador ran away from the terrible ordeal.

There were foremen, artificers and clerks, with Don Pepe for the gobernador of the mining population.

The able gobernador of Marcapata had had the sagacious idea of making the local penitentiary out of his farm of Sausipata!

I should have gone to meet them at Marcapata, but my uncle the gobernador forbade me to do so for fear of displeasing the priest.