This article analyses the presence of road networks in Arica between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It seeks to do so, examine the location of the routes that joined this town with Pool Hearing and various Andean communities in the path. The result of such investigations, show that the Spanish authorities made use of ancient Andean routes, to boost the mining economy, brewing with them, ideological and cultural changes in indigenous populations, as these policies were linked to economic dynamics, and imperial cultural metropolis.
Choque, C. (2017). Highways routes and drovers. Colonial road networks and Andean communities of Arica highlands (16th to 18th century). Revista Chilena De Antropología, (36), 412–429. Retrieved from https://revistas.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/47683
