Cartografía de la transformación de un territorio: La Araucanía 1852-1887

Abstract

The territorial transformation that took place in the Araucanía between 1852 and 1887, period which the government of the nation took to include this area his thin the political system in Chile, based on the French provincial model, is shown by a sequence of thematic maps, which aims to highlight the value of this type of mapping in explaining a historical fact, that like this our, has a spatial dimension. Administrative land changes experienced by this sector of the country had their starting point in 1852, after the creation of the province of Arauco, where a part of it that between, the Biobío river by the north and the Toltén by the south, was given in the first instance the legal status of "Border territory of Arauco Province", then the "Territory of Colonization of Angol", and finally to become the province of Malleco and Cautín in 1887, in the context of a combined process of conquest, and colonization