Repercusión del saber local en el manejo y conservación del suelo en las Parroquias de Quiroga, Peñaherrera y Plaza Gutiérrez del cantón Cotacachi

Abstract

Local knowledge has been part of the culture of the people for thousands of years, are practices that have passed from generation to generation with the purpose of living in harmony with nature, they use the resources they provide without altering the balance that must exist between the two. People maintain the vision that the soil provides the resources they need, they use different fertilizers techniques, partnership, crop rotation, allow to rest on the ground, to maintain fertility; their knowledge allows them to use plants as indicators of whether the soils they use or plan to use are fertile or deficient in nutrients. The people of Quiroga, Peñaherrera and Plaza Gutiérrez in the Cotacachi canton, use inherited techniques together with modern techniques to work the soil, manual labor is the main work force at the moment of producing; they maintain as main economic activities agriculture, livestock and to a lesser extent the conservation of natural environments.