This paper addresses the current configuration of rural land in the department of Cachi (Salta) and its forms of tenure, and analyzes the local and regional processes that have contributed to its formation. Within this arrangement, the State at its municipal, provincial, and national levels has exercised preeminence, conditioning the ways in which its inhabitants appropriate and construct an identification with it. Within this framework, legal forms of land tenure that enable access and use of productive spaces for agricultural activities, reflecting the paradigm of private market ownership and state-imposed organizational logic, are in tension with other local alternatives of territorial organization and conception that have been perpetuated, albeit with changes and reinterpretations, for centuries in the region.
This study employs bibliographic review and documentary analysis of state sources, complemented by data from interviews and field observations. Retracing the socio-historical processes that shape the configuration of the territory, while paying attention to the different ways of constructing territoriality, provides insights into its complexity and the tensions inherent in these networks.
