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In the course of the war of independence waged in jurisdictions of the cities of Salta and Jujuy, administrative and political structures of the Intendencia de Salta del Tucumán suffered profound changes that affected not only the forms the political power was exercised but also the territories over which it was exerted. The aim of this article is to study the relations of power in a society mobilized and threatened by war, noting the difficulties faced to exercise sovereignty over Atacama, an imprecisely defined territory, and to analyze the effects of the militarization in the territorial dispute and the political conflict.

This article proposes a first approach to political participation of movilized men during independent war in Salta's jurisdiction, Argentina*. Our aim is to enter upon the compex political and social inheritance brought by the war. We will try to reconstruct some of it's main political and militar actors developements with a double pourpose: to take into account their political relationships with Bs. Aires and neibourgh states and also subaltern groups motives and political pourposes of those that played the rol of mediators between them and salteña elite members.