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This work aims at showing the relationship between the imaginaries of Patagonia as no man’s land - terra nullius- among Don Bosco and his missionaries and the institutions that were generated in Patagonia, as its missionary territory. The work budget is the gap between imaginary and institutionality, where the imaginary is the a priori foundation of conception of reality and its representation, and the institutions are the symbolic manifestation to regulate social life, action and behavior. This concept is applied to analyze the creation of the apostolic vicariate and prefecture of Patagonia and its institutional consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]