Boletín De Estudios Geográficos, (121), 15–37.
https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.40.040
ABSTRACT
Transhumant pastoralism in the department of Malargüe (Mendoza, Argentina) is a cultural way of life based on a double strategy of traditional subsistence and environmental management of the mountains. In this paper we present an approach to this pastoral socioecological system in the south of the province. From an ethnographic work with families located in the Rio Grande basin, we describe transhumance and the consequences of a fragmentation in the application of public policies oriented to pastoral activity, added to the external threats to goat breeding. We conclude by highlighting the scientific-political urgency of implementing a research and state intervention program for the development and sustainability of the transhumance way of life.
