Political-administrative division of Chile, the construction of Ñuble Region

Abstract

We maintain that the current internal division of the national territory is structured as a construction that in time characterizes the occupation of space, where geography plays a fundamental role as a tool for the formation of the Chilean State, when its approached from the political and administrative order. This arrangement structures a notion of the territory according to three phases: the first during the colonial period, when the territory is subject to the Spanish monarchy; the second period, during the republican organization and a third period during the last hundred years. The resulting construction is verified according to the revision of documents, fundamental letters, regulations and laws that converge in the current administrative political delimitation of the Ñuble Region.