Estabelecimento de estâncias: estratégia imposta pela coroa luso-brasileira na fixação dos limites da fronteira oeste do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

The present study if it projects her/it an attempt of demonstrating the consolidation of the limits of the Brazilian National State, in the Fronteira Oeste of Rio Grande do Sul with Uruguay in the first half of the century XIX (1801 - 1850), leaving of the appropriation and ownership of the lands devolutas allowed by the Portuguese Crown through the regime of sesmarias donations, motivating like this the fixation of stays for the accomplishment of your interest in fastening those limits. Like this, it is demonstrated to the proprietors' of the stays relationship with Fronteira West's configuration in the first half of the already mentioned century. For the accomplishment of this study it is used besides the pré-existent bibliography, I tell of travelers and of the archaeology that you/they bring with itself the reality of the time, as well as, the retractation of the daily and of the material and social relationships inside of the universe estancieiro; and still, it is included the resource of the documentation that corroborates with the mentioned methodology here. It is verified that the people's fixation to the earth in this rural and distant universe becomes necessary due to the successive attempts of Spanish domain for the border. The Fronteira Oeste will be defined by your limitations territorial estancieiras and configured culturally inside of these patterns. It is noticed although starting from the installation of the Law of Lands of 1850, in this area, in other words, with the passage of the ownership for the private property, the Crown practically forced a frontier definition. In this context, the institution landowner is perpetuated: the old sesmarias are with the great gentlemen, the lands taken possession devolutas and not registered the Crown and the result they were returned of that it is that have immense spaces today sub taken advantage of as if they go bordering internal in that our notion doesn't penetrate