Los pueblos ferroviarios de La Pampa: un proyecto a dos escalas

Abstract

This presentation is part of the research work The peoples of the desert: the processes of occupation and urbanization of the National Territory of La Pampa, Argentina (Martínez, 2016). This territory occupies the central position of Argentina, and contains the western belt of the Pampas plain, the sector of greater agricultural and livestock productivity of the country of Latin America and in a privileged position in the world. At the end of the 19th century, with the industrial development and the demand for raw materials from developed countries, the National Territory of La Pampa entered an accelerated process of occupation and urbanization, radically transforming a vast virgin territory into productive zones, and rapidly integrating it into the national and international structure. All the events that happened then mark an unknown history of the territory, and which is partly narrated in this presentation: the rural layout, the putting into production, the railway layout and the layout of the villages. These aspects definitively denote the main features of the identity of this territory, granting particularities that persist and determine the future of the present province of La Pampa.