Abstract

OTS, María José; CAHIZA, Pablo  and  GASCON, Margarita. ARTICULACIONES DEL CORREDOR TRASANDINO MERIDIONAL: El río Tunuyán en el Valle de Uco Mendoza, Argentina. Rev. hist. am. argent. [online]. 2015, vol.50, n.1, pp.81-105. ISSN 2314-1549 .

The article analyzes geographical, archeological and historical data in order to describe the Tunuyan River in the Uco Valley (150 km south of the provincial capital) as a corridor that articulated a region thanks to both its natural resources and the possibility that it provides for the transit of people and resources. The Tunuyan is one of the main rivers of Mendoza. It goes through a diversity of environments, from the Andes where it is born to the plains up to the Desaguadero River where it dies off. Following a north-south axis, the Tunuyan was the southernmost limit of a macro-region that embraces the Central West and the North West of Argentina (COA and NOA). Also, it is the southernmost corridor that allows the transit from east to west through the semiarid lands of the Pampa seca, from San Luis to the Andes, which can be crossed through the pass of Portillo de los Piuquenes to go into the Central Valley in Chile.

Keywords : Uco Valley; Tunuyan River; Archeology; History of Mendoza.

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