Museo arqueológico Memoria Indígena en Soacha, Cundinamarca

Abstract

Soacha Cundinamarca is characterized for being the municipality of Colombia with the greatest wealth of rock art (pictograms) in rock shelters. It was, refuge for the prehispanic civilizations (population of hunters, Herrera period, Muisca) of the 12,000 centuries BC until the Spanish conquest; since then they left an important legacy of research, knowledge and dissemination for future generations, consolidating as a legacy today embodied and that has lasted over time. Due to generational changes and new ways of living, urban expansion has increased due to new social housing projects (VIS). Generating, deterioration of archaeological heritage and destruction of this by the inhabitants, because of ignorance about the value of the archaeological finds with which they cohabit. Therefore, by means of an intervention strategy, it is proposed to design an architectural project in a protected archaeological area (AAP) by the ICANH in commune five of Soacha Cundinamarca San Mateo, where greater damage, destruction and deterioration of the patrimony has been effected. Archaeological. And so, stop the urban expansion and destruction of these heritage sites, seeking the conservation and protection of the archaeological heritage of Soacha Cundinamarca.