Análisis socioambiental en el espacio turístico de la vereda escaño (San Andrés de Pisimbalá – Tierradentro - Cauca)

Abstract

Taking as a framework of interpretation the social production of space and environmental sociology, it was analyzed how the inhabitants of the Escaño village (corregimiento of San Andrés de Pisimbalá, department of Cauca) socially and environmentally produce the space from tourist activities, to this, the perception of the tourist space was built from the dwelling community to understand the environmental practices, the representation of the socio-environmental space was established from the governmental institutions and finally the construction of the socio-environmental relations of the tourist space lived was determined from the perceived and conceived of the inhabitants. The methodology implemented in the research is qualitative with a hermeneutical approach; the instruments applied were the semi-structured interview with 10 inhabitants of the territory and the observation in field work. The Atlas Ti computer program was used to analyze the interviews. A feeling and appropriation of the ecological resources that surround the community of the village of Escaño was found, however, in the environmental practices based on their testimonies a contradiction between environmental thinking and actions is denoted. In the tourist space of the village of Escaño, it is interrelated and finds the vision of environmental institutions, tourism corporations and the rural and indigenous community