Hydroelectric Dams and Regional Planning: HIDRONOR and the Chocón-Cerros Colorados Complex (Patagonia, Argentina)

In Patagonia, plans to develop the region and foster its integration to Argentina were originally related to the ideas and practices of regional planning. As part of policies in which new regions were defined by river basins, a series of hydroelectric dams became the spearhead of the sought-after de...

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Publicado: IIGHI - CONICET/UNNE 2024
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Hidroelectricidad
Desarrollo
Planificación regional
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spelling I48-R154-article-79422024-12-11T15:37:57Z Hydroelectric Dams and Regional Planning: HIDRONOR and the Chocón-Cerros Colorados Complex (Patagonia, Argentina) Represas hidroeléctricas y planificación regional: el caso de Hidronor y el complejo Chocón - Cerros Colorados (Patagonia, Argentina) Williams, Fernando Represas Hidroelectricidad Desarrollo Planificación regional In Patagonia, plans to develop the region and foster its integration to Argentina were originally related to the ideas and practices of regional planning. As part of policies in which new regions were defined by river basins, a series of hydroelectric dams became the spearhead of the sought-after development. In the so called Comahue region, and as part of the Chocón-Cerros Colorados Complex, a series of ten dams were built by HIDRONOR between the 1960s and 1990s. The aim of this paper is to delve into an analysis that goes beyond the problems posed by political history, and problematize some theoretical specificities of regional planning, such as the notion of region and the referentiality of certain dam projects, as a way of explaining the vicissitudes of the construction and management of this hydroelectric infrastructure in Patagonia. In so doing, we propose to study not only the formulation of the project but also its implementation, and to establish comparisons with similar cases in other Latin American countries like Brazil. Desde la Planificación Regional, se pretendió contribuir al desarrollo de la Patagonia y completar su integración a la Argentina. Como parte de políticas que reconceptualizaron nuevas regiones basadas en cuencas fluviales, las represas hidroeléctricas constituyeron la punta de lanza del desarrollo buscado. Así, en la denominada región del Comahue, HIDRONOR construyó, entre las décadas de 1960 y 1990, el denominado Complejo Chocón-Cerros Colorados, integrado por una decena de represas. Reseñando y trascendiendo los análisis que se ciñen a los problemas de la historia política, se busca ahondar en algunas especificidades teóricas de la planificación regional, como la definición de la noción de región y la referencialidad de determinados proyectos modélicos, para explicar desde allí, los avatares de la construcción y gestión de esta infraestructura de generación hidroeléctrica en la Patagonia. Para ello, se propone poner en perspectiva no sólo la formulación del proyecto del complejo sino su implementación, a través de comparaciones con casos similares en Latinoamérica, particularmente el caso brasileño. IIGHI - CONICET/UNNE 2024-12-09 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/fhn/article/view/7942 10.30972/fhn.517942 Folia Histórica del Nordeste; No. 51 (2024); 115-140 Folia Histórica del Nordeste; Núm. 51 (2024); 115-140 2525-1627 0325-8238 spa https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/fhn/article/view/7942/7479 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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topic Represas
Hidroelectricidad
Desarrollo
Planificación regional
spellingShingle Represas
Hidroelectricidad
Desarrollo
Planificación regional
Williams, Fernando
Hydroelectric Dams and Regional Planning: HIDRONOR and the Chocón-Cerros Colorados Complex (Patagonia, Argentina)
topic_facet Represas
Hidroelectricidad
Desarrollo
Planificación regional
author Williams, Fernando
author_facet Williams, Fernando
author_sort Williams, Fernando
title Hydroelectric Dams and Regional Planning: HIDRONOR and the Chocón-Cerros Colorados Complex (Patagonia, Argentina)
title_short Hydroelectric Dams and Regional Planning: HIDRONOR and the Chocón-Cerros Colorados Complex (Patagonia, Argentina)
title_full Hydroelectric Dams and Regional Planning: HIDRONOR and the Chocón-Cerros Colorados Complex (Patagonia, Argentina)
title_fullStr Hydroelectric Dams and Regional Planning: HIDRONOR and the Chocón-Cerros Colorados Complex (Patagonia, Argentina)
title_full_unstemmed Hydroelectric Dams and Regional Planning: HIDRONOR and the Chocón-Cerros Colorados Complex (Patagonia, Argentina)
title_sort hydroelectric dams and regional planning: hidronor and the chocón-cerros colorados complex (patagonia, argentina)
description In Patagonia, plans to develop the region and foster its integration to Argentina were originally related to the ideas and practices of regional planning. As part of policies in which new regions were defined by river basins, a series of hydroelectric dams became the spearhead of the sought-after development. In the so called Comahue region, and as part of the Chocón-Cerros Colorados Complex, a series of ten dams were built by HIDRONOR between the 1960s and 1990s. The aim of this paper is to delve into an analysis that goes beyond the problems posed by political history, and problematize some theoretical specificities of regional planning, such as the notion of region and the referentiality of certain dam projects, as a way of explaining the vicissitudes of the construction and management of this hydroelectric infrastructure in Patagonia. In so doing, we propose to study not only the formulation of the project but also its implementation, and to establish comparisons with similar cases in other Latin American countries like Brazil.
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url https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/fhn/article/view/7942
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