%0 Journal Article %T Los Andes del Sur %A Francisco Gazit¨˛a %J ARQ %D 2002 %I Ediciones ARQ %X Tras m¨˘s de un recorrido por la cordillera, el autor reflexiona sobre la relaci¨®n del pueblo chileno con los Andes. Mediante preguntas y conclusiones se reivindica lo que ha sido hist¨®ricamente una barrera despoblada, agreste y abandonada, a la cual se le da la espalda, m¨˘s que un territorio con el potencial de dar cabida a todo un imaginario. After walking several routes along and across the mountain range, the author reflects about the relation between Chilean people and their most important geographic reference, the Andes. What has been an empty, tough and abandoned barrier, and has also been given the back by the dwellers of the Chilean territory, he vindicates it as a location that would give place to a collective consciousness %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-69962002005100017