Interpretación del territorio de Napo desde la perspectiva de la ordenación del territorio y la cosmovisión indígena

Abstract

Abstract: Interpret the territory of the province of Napo from the perspective of planning territorial and indigenous worldview, to identify points of meeting and disagreement between both and their impact on the territorial configuration. The province of Napo is located Within the Amazon region that Ecuador has, part of the basin is located there. high of the Amazon River. It is a province with an invaluable cultural wealth, it contains landscapes and rivers, with exceptional scenic characteristics, has great potential tourist and productive, this thanks to its natural and cultural diversity, and its location privileged geography. In recent years, it has become clear that Its territory has been the focus of socio-environmental conflicts, precisely due to the diversity of its natural resources, which are apparently committed for the use of the State, qualifying its extraction within strategic sectors . Also, it has been evident that, When traveling through this province, there is social inequality mainly in the communities indigenous people, mostly Kichwas, who are found in areas of interest to the development of strategic - extractive projects. To interpret the territory, from the worldview, the Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology was considered. This methodology consists of the participation of important actors in a certain territory, such as democratic and cooperative research method in order to make visible the territory of honest way. As a result, it was obtained.