Borderscapes and water on the Bolivia’s boundary with Brazil (Puerto Quijarro & Guayaramerín)
This article aims to develop the notion of water and borderscape in Puerto Quijarro and Guayaramerín, Bolivian cities located at the international border with Brazil. The study is supported by a fieldwork conducted in 2018, with the review of historical, geographical, population and field income bac...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA |
| Repositorio: | Estudios Fronterizos |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.localhost:article/1229 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/1229 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | borderscape waterscape Guayaramerín Puerto Quijarro Bolivian border Geography Physical Geography Hydrology Water paisaje fronterizo paisaje hídrico frontera boliviana Geografía Geografía física Hidrología |
| Sumario: | This article aims to develop the notion of water and borderscape in Puerto Quijarro and Guayaramerín, Bolivian cities located at the international border with Brazil. The study is supported by a fieldwork conducted in 2018, with the review of historical, geographical, population and field income background mainly in the Bolivian international border. Semi-structured interviews were applied to officials associated with border control and transportation, in addition to registering observations, photographs and informal conversations. Three interpretative approaches are proposed as a research result: the first is distant and historical for both cases; the second is proposed on an urban scale for Puerto Quijarro, analyzing its morphology and a mural; and the third approach is proposed with an intersubjective perspective for Guayaramerín. In conclusion, border and waterscapes allow to identify metaphors such as: isolation, wall, wall and island, which problematize the relationship between society and nature in this water border. |
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