Impacto del crecimiento urbano en zonas agrícolas: Reserva Territorial Atlixcáyotl, Puebla

Abstract

The city of Puebla in the last decades has presented a slowed urban growth. Situation that has generated conurbation with contiguous rural localities, where still have agricultural zones with great productive value, as it is the case of San Bernardino Tlaxcalancingo. Place where there are still agricultural zones immersed in the locality, with cultivation of nopal and maize, that are the base of the local economy. This research analyzes the impact of the urban growth of the Atlixcáyotl Territorial Reserve on agricultural areas in order to know how this urban growth has affected the decrease of agricultural areas and thus have the basis for a proposal of urban growth, which takes into account the change of land use of the last three decades, areas of agricultural value and local uses and customs; which have predominated for generations in this locality.