Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development in the Quebrada de Humahuaca: Potential and Prospects

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development in the Quebrada de Humahuaca: Potential and Prospects

Patrimonio cultural y desarrollo sostenible en la Quebrada de Humahuaca. Potencial y perspectivas

This paper presents an assessment of the potential of the Quebrada de Humahuaca in relation to its rich natural and cultural heritage. This assessment focuses on the opportunities this heritage offers for protection, preservation, and revaluation, as well as for the implementation of comprehensive regional sustainable development programs.
To this end, several aspects of the region are taken into account and analyzed, including geomorphological, geographical, environmental, archaeological, historical, and anthropological features. These are considered together with an evaluation of different concepts relevant to the assessment process, particularly the notion of sustainability.
Finally, a proposal is presented for the specific case of the Quebrada de Humahuaca, emphasizing its long history of human occupation, which spans more than 10,000 years, and showing a close and changing relationship between human societies and a specific environment of remarkable natural beauty. This history of human occupation, including the present-day relationship between human societies and this particular environment, may be described as a “continuing cultural landscape” according to the UNESCO classification.

Este trabajo presenta un análisis de las posibilidades potenciales del rico patrimonio natural y cultural de la Quebrada de Humahuaca con respecto a su protección, preservación y revalorización para la implementación de proyectos globales de desarrollo sostenible. Para ello se realiza una evaluación crítica de las características de este patrimonio, de su situación actual y de las posibilidades potenciales de mejorar esta situación, así como de las distintas propuestas con respecto a la consideración del patrimonio dentro del marco de conceptos tales como “sustentabilidad”, considerando al caso propuesto como un lugar relevante, tanto por sus características como por sus posibilidades.

Hernández Llosas, María Isabel

Derechos de autor 2002 Cuadernos de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. Universidad Nacional de Jujuy

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