Abstract

MEDARDO ONTIVERO, Daniel. Conflicts over water during the first conjuncture towards the institutionalized management of water: The case of Cerrillos and Rosario de Lerma (Salta-,Argentina, between 1857 and 1886). Rev. Esc. Hist. [online]. 2018, vol.17, n.1, pp.00-00. ISSN 1669-9041.

The present investigation examines the water situation of the Department of Cerrillos (Province of Salta) between 1857 and 1886, analyzing the conflicts over water given between the irrigators of the Departments of Cerrillos and Rosario de Lerma. In order to understand the dynamics of social relations and the power that revolved around it, we have advanced in a greater knowledge about the problem of irrigation, which manifested itself not only as a technical difficulty to be resolved but, as a political problem related to the actions of the local landowning elite who, faced with the processes of the institutionalization of water management, sought to preserve the traditional domain of water with the argument of private law and appropriate it by making use of the springs of political power. Hence, the accumulation of demands, conflicts and judgments in favor of responding to water shortages, private interests and state institutionalization processes (municipality of Cerrillos and Rosario de Lerma), were carried out by the landlord’s owners.

Keywords : Hydropolytic; Irrigation problem; Construction of water shortage; Landed oligarchy.

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