El patrimonio cultural en la normativa municipal de Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina (1985-2016)

In Argentina, the recognition of cultural heritage as a constitutional right generated preservation responsibilities for the communities and the State. In 1985, the municipality of Comodoro Rivadavia prepared its first patrimonial regulations that were updated and expanded between 2014 and 2016, based on the actions of neighbors who complained that “their quality of life and cultural heritage was affected”. The article addresses the advances in the legal regime of municipal cultural heritage taking into account international and national instruments and the action of non-state actors. For the analysis, a hermeneutic approach was chosen that contemplates the current regulations in an integral way that, complemented by an ethnographic approach, allowed us to investigate the appropriation of the regulations by the local community.