Municipio y provincias

A complex process has been started by the status change of national territories that gained recognition as provinces, with the right to elect their own government and send representatives to the national legislative branch. This process incorporates a new governmental sphere into heterogeneous spaces, for which administrative roles that did not address any particularities used to be performed until then by the Governor’s offi ce designated by the National Government. Therefore, by asking how the province formation and the relations redefi nition were carried out, the review of national pressures’ incorporation in local terms has been enabled. The case addressed by this paper is the provincialization of Rio Negro and the particular circumstances of the dialog between the San Carlos de Bariloche commune and the incipient governmental space opened since 1958.