Boquete Nahuelpan: Territorialidades en disputa en torno a la patrimonialización del ferrocarril “La Trochita”

Abstract

In recent years, Boquete Nahuelpan ‑ an indigenous territory located northwest of the province of Chubut, Argentina ‑ has become a tourist attraction by being incorporated into the historic train route, known as the “Trochita”. This article examined, from an ethnographic approach, the relationship between tourism, memory and territory asking about the process of patrimonialization of the old train and the incorporation of the Nahuelpan Station into the tourist circuit. This article demonstrates how tourism projects developed in Boquete Nahuelpan omit the memory processes linked to the Mapuche people, making certain indigenous practices invisible in a context of disputed territorialities.