The research examined, for the first time, how an acclimatization garden and the planting and design of avenues, riverbanks, and arid hillsides operated as landscape prototypes. These spaces provided recreational grounds and served as symbols of power by reflecting a dynamic relationship between botanical practices and political decision-making, while also demonstrating the multiple meanings of landscape as an artificial ordering and arrangement of nature.

The work revealed the existence of an arboreal culture in the Chilean capital, carried out by a diverse group of actors who inadvertently connected political, economic, and social threads into an incipient but influential network. Between the 1830s and the 1930s, this network transformed the face and colonial structure of the city through an artificial set of landscape operations that continue to define Santiago today.