El doctor Javier Samuel Pulgar Vidal y su aporte al conocimiento del Perú

Abstract

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 popu- lations 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 aca- demic 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.