Estudio de paisaje La Esmeralda. Una forma de valorar el paisaje Boyacense

Abstract

This research raises a landscape study for the Esmeralda water reservoir and the rural areas of towns like Almeida, Chivor y Macanal in the Valle de Tenza region. That are located in Boyacá’s department. This water reservoir is known as the Chivor’s dam too, and it was constructed from 1967 to 1977 in order to wind power energy for the east country. Since its construction, this dam has caused a series of environmental and economic alteration, in addition to the displacement of population doe to the filling of the water reservoir that occupied the arable land. Althought the region has a regional environmental management plan (PGAR), it is insufficient to recognize the economic, landscape and tourism potential. Therefore, a landscape study allows to fill this gap by characterizing the natural, socio-cultural, economic and functional environmental in order to propose management and protection guidelines in accordance with the place. According to the above a methodology was proposed that seeks to characterize this territory by means of the delimitation of landscape units in order to singularize and valve its landscape, socio-cultural and economic resources that will allow the definition of a series of attributes through which the corresponding strategies and actions that guarantee their protection, management and conservation will be drawn up.