The fabric of spatial distribution and circulation strategies in Tarapacá: a colonial record

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to submit a proposal  about what we think it was the indigenous way to organize, occupy and understand the space of Tarapaca during colonial times. The Corregimiento of Tarapaca was inhabited by different indigenous people who, coming from near and distant landscapes, developed different strategies of distribution and circulation. Pacajes, Carangas, Quillcas, Uros, Lipes and Camanchacas, among others, developed in Tarapaca similar ways of occupation to their previous territoriality. Those ways were completed under colonial domination. Thus, this paper brings a reflection on some indigenous cultural practices re-organized under colonial government.