Resumen

BENEDETTI, Alejandro. Incorporación de nuevas tierras durante el período de conformación del agro moderno en la Argentina: el Territorio de Los Andes, primeras décadas del siglo XX. Mundo agr. [online]. 2005, vol.6, n.11. ISSN 1515-5994.

In 1900 Argentinean government gave form to the Territory of Los Andes, the last of the ten that existed in the country, on lands won to Chile after a decade of diplomatic discussions, as a conclusion of the Pacific War. The new territory was a mountainous area, and, to the very moment when it was incorporated its characteristics were almost unknown to the country. Through the different official missions and independent investigations, on the next decade and half there was an empiric known that was giving form to the idea that the new land had its fate in two extractive activities: the miner of borato and the work of vicuña's fibers and chinchilla's skin. But the development of both of them had several obstacles, that were related to the lack of transport, capital and state mechanisms of encouragement, in the context of a country with an eminent agricultural export profile of cattle and cereals. The lack of economic and demographic growth, as well as other reasons, lead to institutional and territorial fragmentation of Los Andes in 1943.

Palabras clave : Territory of Los Andes; Ministry of Agriculture; boratos; chinchillas; vicuñas.

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