Resumen

ZAMBRANA LARA, Carlos G.. PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE PORT OF COBIJA. Rev. Fuent. Cong. [online]. 2011, vol.5, n.12, pp. 5-13. ISSN 1997-4485.

The city of Cobija, founded in 1906, today seems to be far away from the centre of Bolivia and the influence of the brazilian neighbour still is strong. The "Pearl of Acre" was born as an answer to the old border conflict about the possession of Amazonia as a part of the political programs of the first liberal governors, whose aim was to colonize and integrate the northwestern part of the country. In this article we are presenting photographs which show the first steps of the construction of the duty-port on the coast of river Acre, which was a project headed by Delegado Nacional Adolfo Ballivián. These visual documents offer us to "imagine the past" more easily than written ones. Still, we have to wonder about the intentions of the photographer and his master.

Palabras llave : Cobija; Photographic resources; Bolivian Amazonia; Delegación Nacional de Colonias; Adolfo Ballivián.