Landscape of Lower Uruguay River, impressions on the territory

Authors

  • Mercedes Medina Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Keywords:

Uruguay river, cultural landscape, border territory

Abstract

This article focuses on the area located between the vast plains of Argentinean Pampa and the exuberance of Sierra Gaucha, both strongly conditioned by orography. However, what characterizes this territory is the presence of Uruguay River flowing through it. Both sides of the river are given their names according to their location: the Eastern Republic of Uruguay and the Province of Entre Rios. The 500 km area preceding the river mouth has shaped the political division between Uruguay and Argentina defining their borders for 200 years. This research aims at regaining the original vision of this territory as a unitary space structured by the river. It deals with its transformations, landscape, structuring as well as the underlying project at every stage by means of an approach integrated by different scales. Although each of them lead to a unified image, it is only at the end of this article that the initial question can be answered: are we talking about the Lower Uruguay River as a territory or about two irretrievably unlinked territories?

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Author Biography

Mercedes Medina, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Arquitecta, Magister en Ordenamiento Territorial y Desarrollo Urbano de la Universidad de la República y Doctora en Urbanismo por la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña. Profesora Titular de Urbanismo, Instituto de Teoría de la Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo, Universidad de la República- Uruguay.

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Published

2018-06-12

How to Cite

Medina, M. (2018). Landscape of Lower Uruguay River, impressions on the territory. A&P Continuidad, 3(5), 104–113. Retrieved from https://www.ayp.fapyd.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ayp/article/view/75

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 5 (2016): LANDSCAPES: TERRITORY, CITY, ARCHITECTURE

Section

Thematic dossier

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