Type of tribute paid by indigenous peoples. It was a system of forced labor. In Nahuatl, place where the dead abound, cemetery (Mixtlán). It can also mean opportunity, turn, occasion, batch, time.
MITA: In Argentina and Chile, time shift.
MITA: Troop of cattle being transported by train.
MITA: Forced labour which applied the Crown Spanish in colonial times to the indigenous peoples of the Andean area.
(f) tribute paid the Indians of the Peru.