Demolishing Regions and Creating States: The Conflict of the Internal Borders in the Case of Palizada river

Abstract

Using an approach based on the conflictive history of jurisdictional boundaries between the states of Campeche and Tabasco, immersed in the region of Ríos del Usumacinta, we will present a number of key elements for discussing how the colonization projects and the disputes for economic hegemony interwove with the larger national undertaking in nineteenth-century Mexico, namely the integration of its territory and subsequent “mexicanization”.