Pliegues y grafías en el territorio del Alto Valle del Río Negro. Una aproximación geo-gráfica para entender su evolución

Abstract

The present work will try to show the process of formation of the territorial system of the Upper Río Negro Valley from the perspective of the Geography proposed by Deleuze (1989) in his work on the fold, and by Deleuze and Guattari (2004) when they write " “A Thousand Plateaus.” The Alto Valle region (AVRN from now on) is inserted in the provinces of Río Negro – in its greatest extent – ​​and at the confluence of the Limay and Neuquén rivers in the province of the same name. We find in Vapnarsky (1983) an accurate geomorphological description of the region when he says that: “…in the three rivers involved (Limay, Neuquén and Río Negro) the valleys have a transversal slope to the river that ascends from it until it ends abruptly at the edge of the plateau, forming a kind of wall or ravine called in the region “barda” . The most common thing is that on one side the fence runs immediately to the edge of its channel while on the other the valley is formed…” This allowed the emergence of a territory defined from the folds of the North and South walls, which form a depression or elongated bowl 125 km long and a width that does not exceed 30 km at the height of Provincial Route 6. in the town of General Roca. On this narrow depression limited by walls it was possible to build a productive territory that could survive in a desert environment; the chronicle of that construction is what will animate this work. But this description will try to support three ideas that we consider structuring: • The first is that the territorial conformation of the AVRN is born at the confluence of three dimensions, the original concentration of land ownership, the active state intervention for the execution of territorial structuring infrastructures and lastly – and not least – the construction of a multi-level regulatory framework that favored the processes of occupation, colonization, consolidation and productive transformation of the region. • The second issue is that the territorial model that arises from the structuring we referred to in the previous point has its period of stability for four decades starting in 1930. After the 1970s, what is called territorial imbalance occurs to the extent that the structure of the territory is unable to accommodate the needs and drives of a society very different from the one that gave birth to the AVRN. • The last point consists of understanding that this territorial spelling – ritornello in Deleuzian concepts – needs to be overwritten – in the manner of a radical palimpsest – in order to adapt the Valletta structure to the challenges imposed by changes in land use, production , consumption and reproduction of life; In short - this new project - must be capable of recognizing the new modalities of territorial use and enjoyment.