Settlement, border and desert: the configuration of a regional space in the center-north of the Septentrión novohispano

The establishment of the jurisdictional limits of the present Mexican states throughout century XIX separated spaces that, during the colonial period, had been articulated, but that at the independent time happened to comprise different organizations. This work approaches the process of construction of a regional space whose articulation consolidated in the course of century XVIIII in the center-north of the Septentrión novohispano and that comprised part of the province of the New Biscay. Analysis privileges some variables, among which are the characteristics of process of settlement as well as the perception of Spaniards of the border and desert, which at the same time demarcated the controlled spaces and those that were outside the control of the colonial society, and also the form in which these variables influenced in the process of regional configurationEl establecimiento de los límites jurisdiccionales de los actuales estados mexicanos a lo largo del siglo XIX escindió espacios que durante el periodo colonial habían estado articulados, pero en la época independiente pasaron a formar parte de entidades diferentes. Este trabajo aborda el proceso de construcción de un espacio regional cuya articulación se consolidó en el transcurso del siglo XVIIII en el centro-norte del septentrión novohispano y que formaba parte de la provincia de Nueva Vizcaya. El análisis privilegia algunas variables, entre las que se encuentran las características del proceso de poblamiento, como así también la percepción de los españoles en torno a la frontera de guerra y el desierto, que demarcaban al mismo tiempo los espacios controlados y aquellos que quedaban fuera del control de la sociedad colonial, y la forma en que estas variables influyeron en el proceso de configuración regionalThe establishment of the jurisdictional limits of the present Mexican states throughout century XIX separated spaces that, during the colonial period, had been articulated, but that at the independent time happened to comprise different organizations. This work approaches the process of construction of a regional space whose articulation consolidated in the course of century XVIIII in the center-north of the Septentrión novohispano and that comprised part of the province of the New Biscay. Analysis privileges some variables, among which are the characteristics of process of settlement as well as the perception of Spaniards of the border and desert, which at the same time demarcated the controlled spaces and those that were outside the control of the colonial society, and also the form in which these variables influenced in the process of regional configuration