Lineamientos para el uso de suelo agrológico en la zona de transición urbano – rural “Caso de estudio ciudad de Cañar”

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to generate the guidelines that allow the adequate use of agroecological soils with high agricultural potential, since the inadequate and accelerated growth of the city goes against an appropriate development for the conservation of the soils, these being the main source for obtaining food and sustenance for the population. It focuses on the rural urban transition zone of the city of Cañar, also known with different terminologies such as peri-urban, rururban, among other terms, being this space in which activities and uses of an urban and rural nature collide or are shared. The focus of the research is established from various procedures and methodological schemes such as: information gathering, definition of territorial systems, generation of maps, supervised classification on satellite image of the study area and cartographic analysis. The main result is a rural urban transition zone of 409.04 hectares, with an area of 382.61 hectares suitable for agricultural activities, in addition to perceiving a predominant area of 312.26 hectares dedicated to grazing, an area that must be treated under the guidelines imposed to prevent, mainly, the loss of their productive values. Therefore, it is concluded that this research intends to establish guidelines for an appropriate use of the soil, trying to conserve and prevent the loss of its fertile layer, for which environmental, physical and legal aspects were taken into consideration, keeping in limbo the economic aspects, isms that are considered for the determination of urban areas.