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This paper shows the results of a research that had as main target to understand the procedures that allowed to produce images about Puna de Atacama and how this ones were incorporated inside the national representations once the area was part of the Argentinan republic. Using the theories of Michel Foucault about the discursive analysis this paper will show how the conventions used to represent the Puna de Atacama were determinated by the necesities of incorporate the region as provider of natural resources and, as well, by the imperative of educate their inhabitants. From this point of view it is arguable that the conditions of such description were stablished before the region was crossed.