The geographical space it is the space where nature and the social and cultural elements of a given society coexist. That is, it is a set of natural elements (mountains, valleys, plains, diverse vegetation, etc.) and human elements, such as buildings, streets, monuments, where human life is possible..
A geographical space is always intervened by human action. In other words, a city, a country, a region, a municipality, are geographical spaces. Geography is the science that is responsible for its study and classification.
The geographical space is the organized space for life, where the human being interacts with his fellow men and with the environment, and where the social, political, economic and cultural organization of a people takes place..
In many geographical spaces, such as cities, it is possible to see the passage of time: through their buildings and monuments, for example, the evolution they have had, their growth or their changes is verified. Therefore, it is a dynamic space.
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The geographic space is characterized by two basic dimensions: the locational perspective and the ecological one..
It refers to the possibility of locating a certain space by means of coordinates and being represented on a map.
It is the one referred to all the living beings that exist in a certain geographical space.
These two dimensions have allowed geography to study and analyze geographic space from three spheres or perspectives: the spatial study, the landscape study and the ecological-environmental study..
We could say that history has a significant weight within a geographic space, since, in the same way that a biologist can record the evolution of species, elements from different times (ancient, medieval, modern, etc.) can be traced..
The geographic space consists of the following components.
They are those constituted by the natural characteristics of a site without the human hand having intervened. Examples of natural components are valleys, mountains, deserts, lakes, seas, rivers, etc..
It is everything built by the human being that corresponds to the various activities carried out in a geographical space. These components can be religious monuments, markets, etc..
We refer to everything that is needed to establish a community, and that the human being builds.
The political components have to do with the way in which power is organized in different human societies. From this derives the delimitation of borders that divide the countries of the world and the way in which each one organizes its territories (geopolitical organization).
These components are printed in geographical spaces as a result of the dynamics of production and consumption, that is, of the market, with which societies seek to satisfy their needs..
In this sense, in many places the different social classes are easily recognizable by the characteristics that each one contributes to the geographical space..
They are those related to the particular way of being of each community, its customs, its language, its traditions, its gastronomy, its architecture, etc., and that throughout its existence is preserved.
There are those who point out that there is no specific classification, and classify the geographic space into two large groups, the intervened and the non-intervened spaces. However, there are others that classify it by land use, by its degree of transformation or by its extension..
The urban space (urban landscape, urban area, urban area, urban nucleus, among other names), is that specific and typical of cities and urban centers, which is generally defined by the number of inhabitants.
Each country usually has its own criteria to establish which site is a city: for example, for Japan a settlement will be a city with more than 30,000 inhabitants.
The urban centers generally have a larger population and their limits are concentrated economic activities of the secondary and tertiary sectors, at the same time that there is infrastructure of all kinds.
In other words, apart from the houses, you will see many office buildings, buildings that house shops (malls, shopping centers, etc.), numerous restaurants, cinemas, theaters and everything that citizens need..
There is a spatial organization through zones, municipalities, neighborhoods, streets and avenues.
These are areas that have fewer people, animal or crop farms abound and there are large areas of land without any type of buildings.
This is where those intervened by human beings and those not intervened would enter. In the first are the cities and towns, and all that space where the human being has built something.
In the second, there would be all the natural spaces where humans have not yet built something, such as the glaciers of Antarctica. There are fewer and fewer uninterrupted environments.
The geographical spaces according to their extension can be of the first order or of the second, third or even the eighth order.
It refers to the portions in which they can be grouped. The first order would be the continents. The second, regional portions within a continent: South America, Eastern Europe, North Africa (or North), Southeast Asia, etc..
The third order is each country: Spain, Germany, Venezuela, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc. The fourth order indicates the regions within a country, they can be called provinces, states, departments or federative entities (province of Andalusia, in Spain, province of Buenos Aires, in Argentina, Zulia state, in Venezuela, etc.).
The fifth order are smaller regions, such as municipalities; the sixth would correspond to the neighborhoods; the seventh to avenues or streets, and the eighth to homes.
Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, is one of the most populated cities in the world. Both in the center of the city and to the north, you can appreciate the different historical periods that it has had.
In fact, in Tlatelolco there is the Plaza de las tres Culturas, where there are remains of the Mesoamerican culture with pyramids, a church built with the same stones from the colonial era and finally surrounded by huge blocks of houses, testimony of the modern era.
Ribagorza is a region of Huesca, in the Aragonese Pyrenees. Its small towns are nestled in rugged nature, surrounded by mountains and waterfalls..
Today, its population density is very low and serves as a framework for tourism and environmental conservation activities..
It is located in eastern Europe. To the east it borders Russia; to the north with Belarus; to the west with Poland, Hungary and Slovakia; to the southwest with Moldova and Romania and to the south with the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Kiev is its capital and the largest city in the country.
It is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Buenos Aires. It is located to the north of the city and is the largest, a large part of its territory is occupied by the forests of Palermo, a conglomerate of parks and green spaces.
It is mainly residential, although an important part is dedicated to recreation (gastronomy, cultural centers, cinemas and theaters).
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