South America means of transport and communication network spatial organization: an analysis based on logistic revolutions

Abstract

In South America a pattern of subordinated insertion to the world global market persists. It is well known that this does not occur only in economic transactions but also as a structure of a territory occupation pattern that has created important technical networks of transport and communication. Those networks cover the Atlantic and coastal forefronts as well as the hall of exportation between the interior, producers of raw material, and the emporiums, at the seaside (being turned to the Atlantic or the Pacific). In this context, this article aims to analyze the evolution and the organization of technical network means of transport and communication throughout South America, through structure, process, function and the permeated in the territory through the methodology of logistic revolutions.