Serrania Regional Natural Park of Las Quinchas in Otanche, Boyacá, Colombia

EasyChair Preprint № 3163 Rural Community Tourism for the Area of Influence of the: Serrania Regional Natural Park of Las Quinchas in Otanche, Boyacá, Colombia Alejandra Castro Ortegón, Pedro Mauricio Acosta Castellanos, Juan Esteban Quevedo Mora and Karen Barrera Moreno EasyChair preprints are intended for rapid dissemination of research results and are integrated with the rest of EasyChair. April 13, 2020 RURAL COMMUNITY TOURISM FOR THE AREA OF INFLUENCE OF THE: SERRANIA REGIONAL NATURAL PARK OF LAS QUINCHAS IN OTANCHE, BOYACÁ, COLOMBIA 1Alejandra Castro Ortegón, 2Pedro Mauricio Acosta Castellanos, 3Juan Esteban Quevedo, 4 Karen Barrera Moreno. 1,Teacher of Environmental Engineering Faculty, University of Santo Tomás. Tunja-Colombia. Email: [email protected] Contact: 1+573017484015. 2, Teacher of Environmental Engineering Faculty, University of Santo Tomás. Tunja-Colombia. Email: [email protected] Contact: 2+573124534318. 3,Student of Environmental Engineering Faculty, University of Santo Tomás. Tunja-Colombia. Email: [email protected] Contact: 3+573138447153. 4,Student of Environmental Engineering Faculty, University of Santo Tomás. Tunja-Colombia. Email: [email protected] Contact: 4+573204854475 Abstract: After the declaration of the Serranía de las Quinchas Regional Natural Park, there were effects on the community of the area of influence, altering the habitual development of economic activities, causing an increase in poverty, creating new limitations, as well as phenomena of displacement from the areas rural areas towards urban areas, in addition to the development of illegal activities such as extensive deforestation.When determining the lack of economic alternatives with a sustainable approach in the area, an alternative of sustainable economic activity is proposed for the buffer zone of the Natural Park in Otanche, based on the implementation of community rural tourism, with which it is intended minimize negative challenges in both natural ecosystems and the general population since the implementation of cooperative processes. Initially, the environmental, social and economic diagnosis of the area is generated and in the work together with the community the tourist inventory of the region is consolidated, where the main environmental and social criteria capable of consolidating the supply of goods and services are identified of tourist order of the zone, giving rise to the design of the Community Rural Tourism plan, with the consolidation of a tourist map where all the points, routes and activities to develop in the area are located.Finally, the Community Rural Tourism plan was socialized with the community, identifying weaknesses, opportunities, strengths and threats recognized by the community. Index terms: Rural tourism, Cooperativity, Environmental Heritage, Tourist Attraction, Protected area. I. INTRODUCTION preserve and conserve nature and thus achieve mitigation and adaptation to climate change, Protected areas constitute a portion of the territory depending on the policies implemented in each dedicated to the preservation and conservation of the country; In the case of Colombia, there is great environment. These are seen as both political and diversity, which is reflected in the number of protected environmental tools, and are a way of seeing, areas, which when declared cause a direct impact on understanding and producing from the natural the community, because the traditional productive environment and from the socio-cultural perspective activities developed in the area of influence must be (West & Igoe, 2006). They have been established as an transformed to give them a sustainable approach, alternative for the improvement, control and balance evidencing an oblivion on the part of the territorial between the environment and human beings. More and entities when not providing solutions or alternatives of more countries have initiatives for the development economic order for the populations of these protected and declaration of protected areas this in order to areas, generating an increase in the illegal works and 1 in the migration of the rural population towards the Participatory (IAP) and the Participatory Rural urban areas. Diagnostic. For the development of the methodology of the IAP methodology, parameters established by The buffer zones of the protected areas are those areas Pastor-Alfonso, M in 2015 were followed, where it of transition between the anthropic landscape and the recommends for the development of workshops with conservation zones, these areas contain stubble or communities: secondary vegetation and may be exposed to 1. Promote community participation in the design and agricultural and extractive activities, of regular decision of the activities to be developed through intensity (Decree 1996, 1999, art .4) as is the case in collaborative processes that allow understanding the needs the Las Quinchas, in which agricultural activities are of all agents and avoid possible intra-community conflicts, (Laverack & Thangphet, 2009; Weiler & Ham, 2002; p. mainly carried out. After the declaration and alignment Cited by Pastor-Alfonso, M (2015). of the Serranía las Quinchas, a conflict of land use and 2. Adapt the contents to the cultural and social contexts of a great impact of social, economic and environmental the working group, building on the traditional knowledge, nature were generated, so it is necessary to generate, local resources and skills of individuals (Giampiccoli et al., for the local population, economic development 2014; Manyara & Jones, 2007) cited by Pastor-Alfonso , M alternatives that are consistent with the vocation of the (2015). soil and the principles of sustainability according to its 3. “Pastor-Alfonso (2015) mentions Training local trainers environmental importance. with the aim of prolonging the effects of external action” The people of the study area does not have productive (Weiler, 2002), which although not always correct, is valued by local agents (Sosa Covarrubias, 2013); (Manyara, 2007). alternatives with a sustainable approach, due to the absence of processes for the valuation of cultural and For primary information collection in community workshops environmental assets, the low participation by the and to support the feasibility of research, primary sources community in the processes of conservation and were managed such as: sustainable use of biodiversity, This is due to the lack Surveys, interviews and observation: surveys were of access to environmental education programs, conducted that yielded information where the viability of the technological developments and traditional ways of CRT in the Las Quinchas village was verified. With the visits life without innovation processes in addition to and field work, the paths were registered to observe the wasting the social and environmental heritage of the population's quality of life and the places where CRT activities can be carried out. area. With the information obtained, the logical framework matrix In this way an environmental, social and economic was built, which facilitates the process of conceptualization, diagnosis of the Las Quinchas in Otanche, Boyacá was design, execution and evaluation of projects. Its emphasis is carried out, which allowed consolidating the tourist on goal orientation, orientation towards beneficiary groups inventory with the environmental and social and facilitating participation and communication between attractions that constitute the offer of tourist goods and stakeholders (Ortegón E. P., 2005). services to finally consolidate the Tourism plan under Through this matrix, the necessary activities for each the approaches of sustainability and the conditions of component were identified, and in this way to comply with the protected area, consolidating itself as an alternative the component, which is defined as the specific objectives established in the project, each component responds to a solution for rural communities through cooperative purpose, which is unique and focuses to solve the general processes, achieving the conservation of objective of the project, if the fulfillment of the purpose is environmental and social heritage, increasing the achieved, it will contribute to the achievement of the goals, economic income of the community from the which are the goals proposed in the project (Ortegón E., empowerment and knowledge of their culture and 2005). territory. Through this information an environmental, social and economic diagnosis of Las Quinchas village was made, II. METHODOLOGY being corroborated with the data found in the surveys and in the Management Plan of the Regional Natural Park Quinchas. The community workshops allowed the collection This research is participatory-descriptive. of the necessary information to develop the Tourist “(Castro, 2017) mentions that descriptive studies Resources Inventory which constitutes a registry and an seek to specify the properties, characteristics and integrated state of all the tourist elements that, due to their profiles of people, groups, communities, processes, natural, cultural and human qualities, can constitute a objects or any other phenomenon that is subjected to resource for the tourist, so it represents a valuable instrument an analysis” (Danhke, 1989). for tourism planning, since it serves as a starting point for For the realization of the project, strategic phases evaluations and establishing the necessary priorities for were determined in which the determined objectives

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