The Mendosanjuanina region. A new economic territoriality for Mendoza, San Juan and San Luis in the eighteenth century

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate the existence of an economic territoriality called the Mendosanjuanina region during the eighteenth century and to problematize the economic existence of what historiography calls Cuyo. To this end, the economies of Mendoza, San Juan and San Luis are examined from different variables and economic dynamics. The conclusions reached allow us to analyze the differences between the economy of the Mendoza region and San Luis. The work combines the use of data provided by historiography and documentary sources preserved in the General Provincial Archive of Mendoza and the General Archive of the Nation of Argentina.