ABSTRACT
The Azores, an archipelago located nearly in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, is an Autonomous Region whose legal establishment occurred in 1976, through the approval of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic. Ranging from this event to a contemporary lens–marked by the current rebounding procedures—this paper suggests the Azorean Region as being an active territorial project, aiming to make the territory calculable. Furthermore, through the regulation and institutionalisation of such ordering processes, the Region's concept is proposed as being juridically, socially, culturally, and territorially produced, reflecting on borders and embodying manifestations on such ordering processes, either material or symbolic.
