Tejido Etno Rural: La plaza de mercado como tejido productivo y cultural para los Pijao

Abstract

In Coyaima, a municipality located in the south of Tolima, the ethnic group of the Pijaos, has populated that territory ancestrally and has based its economy on the crops, they have worked the land and after that they consume and sell their products. The municipality has 32 indigenous reservations, one of them is the Totarco Dinde Traditional, located in the Totarco village; a shelter in which there is a main market square, a space for commercialization - own food supply and where cultural activities are also carried out, but which is currently in poor physical and structural conditions. According to the national agricultural census: agricultural activities in the territory of ethnic groups strengthen self-consumption, conservation of resources, improve the living conditions of communities, consolidate the economy and improve the sense of belonging of these ethnic groups. Therefore, the market square is considered as an element that seeks to weave productive and cultural activities with the territory; in which new uses and functions complement existing ones to strengthen the dynamics and activities of the rural and ethnic vocation.