The Argentina-Chile Frontier as Social Space. A case study of trans Andean Economy of Neuquen

BANDIERI, SUSANA (DEL CAPÍTULO) PASCAL GIROT (ED., TOMO)

The Americas. World Boundaries Series. Edited by Gerald H. Blake. Director of the International Boundaries Research Unit at the University of Durham

Routledge

Lugar: London and New York; Año: 1994; p. 151 - 170

The purpose of this chapter is to document the lasting nature of economic, social and cultural relations between the province of Neuquén, in north-western Patagonia, and central Chile. More than a mere natural obstacle or common political boundary, the Andean Range constituted for centuries the axis of an integrated social space. Indeed, since times remote, the territory of Neuquen han functioned as an integral part of Chile´s urban regional weconomy, serving as a hinterland for that country´s principal Pacific Ocean ports.