Levantamiento de unidades geomorfológicas aplicadas a la ruta arqueológica del Qhapaq Ñan ubicado en el cantón Quilanga, provincia de Loja

Abstract

Abstract: The Qhapaq Ñan or Inca Trail, having been declared World Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, has encouraged the States Parties to declare its Outstanding Universal Value, which makes it necessary to seek strategies, mechanisms, and tools for its management. Therefore, the present work was developed with the objective of generating detailed geomorphological information of the Quebrada Huatuchi-Plaza del Inca-Las Aradas subsection, which will serve as input in the execution of future heritage conservation projects. Preliminary work was carried out in which geomorphological and morphometric data were obtained, which were validated and complemented with field campaigns; in this field stage, a geological survey was also carried out, slope processes were identified and the current state of conservation of the heritage was analyzed. The results obtained showed an exogenous-cumulative dynamic of the area due to the interaction of anthropic and natural factors that accelerate erosive processes, which, in additionto modifying the relief, determine a regular state of the patrimony. Finally, to capture the results obtained, geological, geomorphological, morphometric maps and maps of susceptibility to hillside processes were created.