《北地格拉夫尼亞》是智利天主教教皇大學(xué)地理研究所的一份三年出版的刊物(5月、9月和12月)。自1974年出版以來，它收集了經(jīng)驗主義和理論調(diào)查，這些調(diào)查顯示了地理調(diào)查和科學(xué)等不同領(lǐng)域的進展，涉及智利的案例，也涉及拉丁美洲的其他區(qū)域和國家。該出版物的名稱起源于70年代，當(dāng)時地理研究所北格蘭德講習(xí)班的一組專家成員決定向科學(xué)界其他成員介紹他們的調(diào)查和結(jié)論，堅持認(rèn)為對這一領(lǐng)土(“大北方”或“北格蘭德”)進行綜合和跨學(xué)科區(qū)域調(diào)查的重要性。在隨后的幾年里，全球領(lǐng)土的復(fù)雜性日益增加，因此國家領(lǐng)土也日益復(fù)雜，因此需要向超越智利領(lǐng)土界限的其他空間開放。1980年由《北格蘭德》創(chuàng)刊第7期，成為《地理雜志》，表達了對跨越我國的各種地理問題進行報道的愿望。在21世紀(jì)初，科學(xué)與國家的重大融合產(chǎn)生了一種快速而緊迫的需要，即出版物必須統(tǒng)一關(guān)于超越政治邊界的進程的知識。在這種情況下，《北格蘭德地理雜志》采用了綜合和跨學(xué)科的觀點，雖然以智利為中心，但考慮到拉丁美洲的現(xiàn)實，地理進程日益全球化。

The Revista de Geografia Norte Grande is a tri–annual publication (May, September and December) of the Geography Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Published since 1974, it gathers empiric and theoretical investigations, which show the advances in diverse areas of geographical investigation and sciences alike, referred to Chilean cases and also to other regions and countries of Latin America.The title of this publication originates itself when in the seventies, a group of specialists members of Norte Grande Workshop of the Geography Institute, decide to introduce their investigations and conclusions to the rest of the scientific community, persisting on the importance of integrated and interdisciplinary regional investigations of this territory (the "Big North" or "Norte Grande").In the following years, the increasing complexity of global territory and therefore the national one as well, demanded the opening towards other spaces that exceed the limits of the particular Chilean territory. This is how from "Norte Grande" it became "Geography Journal" on the 7th number in 1980, thus expressing the wish to cover diverse geographical problems that cross transversally our country.During the beginning of the 21st century, the major integration of sciences and countries has generated the fast and urgent need that publications unify knowledge on processes that surpass political frontiers. In this scenario, the Norte Grande Geography Journal has adopted an integrated and interdisciplinary vision, although centered in Chile, of geographical processes that are increasingly global, referred to the Latin American reality.