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The Amauta Professor Javier Pulgar Vidal was born on 2 of January of 1911 in Panao located in the high river basin of the Huallaga (Peru). From its youthful years, he was interested in environmental subjects and the ways as the local populations use their natural resources. That took him to get involved in the ways of life of the populations, especially in the countryside. His contribution in the academic world is quite vast, so his incursions in the public administration and the policy. In this presentation, we present his academic contributions, especially within geography. He was a man of ample spirit, with a great ability to found universities. His proposals of division of the country on eight natural regions and of five cross-sectional ones with development aims get a scientific and general acceptance. In the academic world, he was the main founder of modern geography as a professional work in Peru. His enthusiasm for the geographic studies took it until Colombia in where also it left to an important track in the University Jorge Tadeo Lozano.
The Dr. Javier Pulgar Vidal marked the direction of the Peruvian geographic studies during the time he was professor of human geography in the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. It is enough to see the baccalaureate theses written in the decade of 1970 to confirm it. At the moment his disciples are distributed in all the departments of the country, occupying diverse positions, although perhaps some are not properly geographic.
Key words: Javier Pulgar Vidal, Geography of Peru, eight natural regions, regionalization.
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El doctor Amauta Javier Pulgar Vidal nació el 2 de enero de 191 1 en Panao ubicada en la cuenca alta del Huallaga. Desde sus años juveniles se interesó por los temas ambientales y los modos como las poblaciones locales utilizan sus recursos naturales. Eso lo llevó a interesarse también por los modos de vida de las poblaciones, especialmente en las zonas rurales. Su contribución en el mundo académico es vasta y también tuvo incursiones en la administración pública y en la política. En esta presentación se hablará de las contribuciones académicas, especialmente dentro de la geografía. Fue un hombre de espíritu amplio, con una gran habilidad para fundar universidades...