The project consists in the planimetric reconstruction of the Concentration Camp of Río Chico, Dawson Island, Punta Arenas, based on accounts of former prisoners and work meetings with them, photographs and diagrams, and drawings by the architect and former prisoner Miguel Lawner. The significance of this survey is that the Río Chico Camp was the only building erected for this means in Chile during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. It is also the concentration camp that, although it was dismantled, it was the camp located farther South in the world, leaving behind no formal record. The camp was occupied as a strategic place for the reclusion of high-ranking authorities of Salvador Allende’s government, and also of political prisoners of the Region of Magallanes. It is believed that between 600 and 800 prisoners were held at some point at this camp.
Keywords:
Chilean Dictatorship, Concentration Camp, Dawson Island, Heritage and Memory, Human Rights.
Vargas Ulloa, S., & Vidal Cabello, M. . (2022). Technical and architectural survey of the Río Chico Prison Camp, Dawson Island, Punta Arenas. Revista Historia Y Patrimonio, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.5354/2810-6245.2022.69311
