Resumen

RODRIGUEZ BARRAGAN, Daniel Guillermo. The impact of Las Mercedes Dam in Santa Catalina del Alamo and Pasaje town, East of Durango. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2020, n.59, pp.169-198.  Epub 21-Ene-2021. ISSN 0185-2620.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24485004e.2020.59.70984.

The present work is aimed to describe the ways of life in the Eastern part of Durango at the end of 19th century and the beginning of 20th’s, an epoch signaled by the railroad arrival. In particular, it describes the context and means by which the Martínez del Río family, owner of Santa Catalina del Alamo, the biggest Durango’s latifundium, appropriated El Zorrillo stream at the time of Las Mercedes Dam construction, an event that compelled a rearrangement of the relations between the Martínez del Río family and the Pasaje town inhabitants, who considered that the former had deprived them from their land and water.

Palabras llave : water; town; land; latifundium; railroad.