Conformación, estabilidad y crisis del sistema territorial del Alto Valle del Río Negro – Del discurso poblador a la práctica extractivista actual

Abstract

is article tries to show the process of formation of the territorial system of the Alto Valle de Río Negro. It starts from the periodization proposed by Pérez (2020) that goes from the presence of indigenous and Creole societies to the present day. Emphasis is placed on the concurrence of three factors that formed the Alto Valle del Río Negro. ese are processes of concentration of property in a few actors, the sustained construction of infrastructures that made possible the territorial structuring in the second instance, and - lastly – the regulatory support that enabled the colonization process and its subsequent consolidation.A survey of bibliographic sources and direct observation showed that the territory is mutating its profile as some events that act as historical junctures occur. e arrival of the "Ferrocarril Sud" (South Railway) and - later - the need to make the railway more productive contributed to the change in the productive profile of the AVRN (by its Spanish acronym) from cattle exploitation in the beginning to fruit growing from 1930 onwards.Possible changes due to the execution of water regulation and irrigation works.Since 1930, there have been forty years of fruit growing boom where small and medium-sized farms develop. e process of territorial imbalance - initiated throughout the 1970s - originates the confluence of issues related to the growth of the Neuquén -Plottier - Cipolletti metropolis, the beginning of the decline of the fruit-growing activity and the emergence of some enclaves of mining extractivism and changes in the land uses of the peri-urban areas of the towns. Focus is made on the stage of territorial imbalance that reaches the present.