摘要：En este trabajo se rescata la importancia del pensamiento del intelectual ariqueño Rómulo Cúneo-Vidal, a quien podemos calificar como un adelantado en cuanto al estudio referido a las etnias que existieron en los territorios de Arica y Tacna. Su enfoque puede ser catalogado como etnohistórico, vale decir, con base en documentación escrita de época colonial, que le llevó inclusive a anticipar la tesis sobre el control vertical de pisos ecológicos que medio siglo más tarde formulará John Victor Murra.
其他摘要：The purpose of this study is to highlight the intellectual legacy of Rómulo Cúneo-Vidal, a scholar from Arica, whose work represents the study of the ethnic groups of the Arica-Tacna region that was ahead of his time. His studies can be defined as an ethnohistoric approach because he utilized all sources of colonial documents which allowed him to anticipate the model of verticality that was formulated 50 years later by John V. Murra.
