El paisaje de Real de Catorce: un despojo histórico

Abstract

Given the new wave of foreign investments in mining affecting most of Latin-American countries that has allowed transnational corporations to enter and exploit natural resources in a lax regimes context, Mexico faces resources a dispossession scenario similar to what happened under Porfirio Díaz regime. The study area, Real de Catorce, is an example of the historical transcendence of a resources exploitation model that has left obvious marks in the present landscape. Landscape, as a unit of analysis, permits to extract from its elements and forms the complexities of nature-society relationships. A diachronic examination of landscapes enables to notice structural and organizational process as well as events that result in substantial changes in the landscapes’ evolution. The landscape history of Real de Catorce micro-region refects a trajectory characterized by resources and population exploitation, and accumulation by dispossession and environmental transformation.