Resumen de Dibujando la araucanía. La construcción, la forma y el dominio de un territorio

Wladimir Mauro Antivil Marinao

• Araucanía is an area which has been developed for centuries; however, the most important period of construction was 19th century. This thesis explores the development of the area and its shaping during the colonization period of the Republic of Chile, in that same century.

  The aim of this thesis is to understand the territory, predominantly through the view of its morphology. This will be developed in three chapters. The first chapter considers the development of the Mapuche territory. It will seek to describe the main constructions and demonstrate that, despite the fact that this people group did not construct cities, it established some morphological patterns for the territory. The second chapter will explore the cartography that was recorded for Arauncanía, from the colonial period until the beginning of the 20th century, with the development of a map by Nicanor Boloña, 1916-1917.

  The third chapter explains four instruments which the Chilean state used to rule and develop the territory: the establishment of military forts, the division of rural land, the construction of towns, and the construction of the railway.

  The result of this colonization is a collection of diverse concepts combined with heterogeneous morphological patterns, however with a structure that finds continuity in the north-south direction of the nation that was beginning to be formed.