LA QUIACA – VILLAZÓN COMO FRONTERA ENTRE EL CENTRO Y LA PERIFERIA EN AMÉRICA DEL SUR
LA QUIACA – VILLAZÓN AS A BORDER BETWEEN THE CENTRE AND THE PERIPHERY IN SOUTH AMERICA

Author(s): Mirosława Czerny, Andrzej Czerny
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: borders; peripheral regions; South America; La Quiaca – Villazón
Summary/Abstract: Each border area is a zone of cultural, economic, and political differences.In the nations of the Global South, whose colonial past has resulted in very strong internaldivisions, border regions have often become real barriers to development, as well asto social and economic interactions between neighbouring countries. Local populationsare thus interested in opening up borders, in the free movement of people and goods,and in investment in border regions. Such a perception of a border often confl icts withoffi cial state policy.The Argentine-Bolivian border undoubtedly represents a border of inequality betweenthe two neighbouring countries. On one side, there is one of the wealthiest countriesin South America – Argentina; and on the other one of the continent’s poorest – Bolivia.Adding to that are conditions specifi c to the Andes, present on either side of theborder. North-West Argentina is in turn the poorest region of that country. Indeed, inboth cases the border regions form part of the geographical and economic peripheries ofthese neighbouring countries, a circumstance that the nature of the border also shapes.

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