%0 Journal Article %T SABERES Y ENTORNOS: NOTAS PARA UNA EPISTEMOLOG¨ªA DEL TERRITORIO1 %A Vergara %A Nelson %J Alpha (Osorno) %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-22012010000200012 %X territory is a reality which manifests itself through a plurality of areas and factions that we will call here perspectives. two of them seem to us, theoretically, are always correlative: the metaphysical perspective and the epistemological perspective. according to the first, territory is a kind of effective reality, though not always in a concrete fashion, while the second is a notional reality, a concept, a theory. in this essay we approach territory through this second condition, reviewing what we generally understand as epistemic reality; and what territory seems to be to us in regard to an epistemic reality, and we indicate the correlations that appear between both perspectives. %K space %K territory %K spaciality %K territoriality. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-22012010000200012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en