Diseño conceptual del observatorio de fraccionamiento de suelo para las áreas rurales en el Ecuador

Abstract

The rural territory is seen mainly as an area for agricultural use. However, at present, this territory has changed its objective, because the sale of properties is more profitable than agriculture itself. Due to this, morphologically incorrect properties are generated, with scarce road infrastructure and basic services, in breach of the regulations established for a sector, causing a problem that affects the land use of these areas, such as the fractionation of land. Many times these properties are located in high risk areas. From this, a tool is proposed that helps to take decisions and then locate the areas that suffer the greatest land fractionation in the rural area, called the Rural Land Fractionation Observatory, which is structured around indicators derived from variables obtained from the digital databases of public entities that intervene in the fractionation processes. The Observatory seeks to implement this experience in the 221 cantons as a support of information that will be used for future planning, in addition, it is a national contribution, since through a network of Observatories, common information will be available to observe territorial phenomena that occur with respect to the land fractionation. This investigation makes the application of the indicators in the case of the canton Cuenca, allowing to observe the behavior of the fractionation of soil in the area and with possibilities to replicate this model in other cantons, taking into account the necessary adjustments required by each territory.