Abstract
Geographical imaginaries produced by dominant elites have historically operated as strategies for territorial appropriation. In river areas, those imaginaries were many times sustained on the ideas of nation, legitimizing or trying to promote territorial transformations (through the technological organization of “nature”) in tune with the prevailing technocratic paradigms. Expecting to highlight the significance of imaginaries in the construction of specific ideas about nation, progress and development in Argentina, we introduce two cases located in two places of Parana River (the Delta´s islands and the central section). In both, the three ideas -mobilized by imaginaries constructions- were materialized in territorial transformation proposals. The analysis has allowed to show the appropriation strategies developed by dominant elites to impose an exclusive model of territorial order, based on their own interests.
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