Read the following sentence and choose the verb tense that should be used to translate it to spanish there was an indigenous village near the city.

preterit tense for a completed action

imperfect tense for a description

The sentence is:

There was an indigenous village near the city.

If the village is not anymore near the city, then we should use the preterit tense:

Hubo una villa indigena cerca de la ciudad.

If we want to give some description only, and we don really know if the village is still there or not, we need to use the imperfect tense.

Habia una villa indigena cerca de la ciudad.

en que museo se vendieron algunas de las colecciones incas?

la palabra "en " se usa para nombrar lugares.