Abstract

This article presents the results of a research on the environmental history of a basin in southern Chile. Through historiographic and ethnographic work, the process of territorialization of the basin was reconstructed by analyzing processes of agroforestry colonization, conservationism and the irruption of extractive-business practices. The results show that aspects of the new Latin American rurality are territorialized through continuity, divergence and conflict in the relationships historically established in the territory. These are influenced by agents that, internally and externally, push these processes. The study concludes that the territorialization process addressed makes it possible to make visible the relevance of the relationships between human and non-human agents in the territory, to value the relationships made possible by animal and plant agents, and to contribute to the construction of a non-linear historical narrative that makes visible the complexity of environmental processes.