Puchoco, Schwager. When the industry builds the cultural landscape
Keywords:
cultural landscape, coal cities, mining settlement, Schwager, Punta PuchocoAbstract
This article studies the rise and fall of Punta Puchoco in Schwager, one of the most significant cases of mining cities originated by the coal mine industry in the South of Chile, which currently represents a valuable cultural landscape, alive and in permanent evolution. The analysis of different factors and historical events of this “coal city” – the productive factor, the social factor and the natural factor – allows to understand its evolution from company town, going through different stages (industrial settlement, industrial city, neighbourhood) until finally becoming a cultural landscape. These landscapes, very rarely known as the case of the coal mine settlement of Schwager in the south of Chile, show the real dimension of the industrial heritage when it becomes visible in its territory to be contemplated and valued through its rich set of relationships.
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