ABSTRACT
Hyperurbanization around a national metropolis or regional primate cities is present in nearly all the countries of Latin America. Recently concern about interregional migrations and their comparison with intraregional flows has developed in response to the growth of interest in the relations between economic process and organization of national space. Contrary to the trend in the United States, where the mainstream flows are from the denser, more highly organized and industrialized regions of the northeast to the south and west, in Latin America the prevailing movement is directed toward the more extensively urbanized regions with the highest industrial concentration. An interesting avenue of investigation is concerned with the consequences of interregional migrations on the cultural patterns of the population. A migration policy can fulfil the purpose of relieving excessive concentration, as much by stimulating middle-sized cities located in the core region as by forming new regions.
