after the process of conquering indigenous nobility, it had to adapt to the new hispanic dominance structure and become a mediator between colonial authorities and the community of origin. This article reconstructs the incorporation of the indigenous elite of the Guane province in Catholic Cofradías. What role did the indigenous authorities play in the process of consolidating a religious corporation during the 17th and 18th centuries in the people of India in Moncorá? In order to give an account of this process, the Book of the Cofradía y Hermandad de Nuestra Señora del Rosario is analysed in an inductive manner and some statistical data are extracted in order to identify the participation of caciques and cacies in the office system of the religious community. The information provided shows that indigenous nobility was collectively integrated into the Cofradia during the 17th century. However, at the end of that centuria, he transferred his participation to indigenous people of the common, and the indigenous authorities relocated to the periphery where they carried out devotional practices such as the thrust of the rosé.