La expedición de antonio raimondi a la provincia de tarapacá y la construcción estatal de un territorio nacional peruano: Comentarios y transcripción de su cuaderno de campo

Antonio Raimondi's field notes about the expedition carried out between the late 1853 and the early 1854 to Tarapacá Province by order of the president José Rufino Echenique are transcribed and commented with the purpose of verifying the economic potential of saltpeter as a revenue generator. In the comments to this body of research it is described on one hand, the perception of this Italian naturalist about the natural and human landscape of the then southernmost region in Perú, and, on the other, it is analytically supported that this exploration was part of the complex and contradictory processes of the formation of the national territory assigned to the republican project led by the state apparatus that was mainly controlled by the elite of Lima.