Configuration and current state of a port cultural landscape in the city of Paraná

Abstract

With this work we propose a reading of the riverside edge of the city of Paraná (Argentina) within its ejidal limits and particularly of the sector that includes the Puerto Nuevo, considering the category of cultural landscape, understood as a historical result of the interaction in time and space of a society and its environment (UNESCO, 1992). Firstly, we carried out a synthetic reconstruction of the processes of occupation of the coast, its articulation with the urban weft and the importance of the successive port locations of the city (today largely cultural relicts) as structuring elements of the current river landscape. From there, we delve into the area of the Puerto Nuevo and its surroundings, with special reference and weighting to its current, tangible and intangible heritage. We consider that with this work a contribution is made to the preservation of said heritage, understanding the production of scientific knowledge, its circulation and dissemination as inputs for the awareness of its value and its social resignification as a public, historical, cultural and identity asset.