Caracterización estática del agrosistema de altura en las comunidades Palacio Real, San Francisco de Cunuguachay, La Moya, Jatari Campesino y Rumicruz

Abstract

This study was carried out in Palacio Real, San Francisco of Cuniguachay, Moya, Jatari Campesino and Rumicruz communities belonging to Calpi parish, Riobamba Canton, Chimborazo province. The same are located from 3,240 to 3,282 over sea, the altitudinal range which is divided as submoorland o moorland whose characteristics converge in certain conditions as physical and particularly in weather whose action is decisive in life patterns of people.

To determine the altitudinal agroecosystem belonging to all communities mentioned before, existing secondary information was collected from census, Spatial Planning and Territorial Development in Calpi, diagnosis via a survey was applied which has social, economic, livestock, environmental and productive components, the same was submitted to pilot determining that respondents spent 25 minutes to answer the survey. Students who are added to Livestock School were trained to apply the survey to the communities.

Once the results wewre tabulated, it was concluded that the population could not improve their lifestyle constituting a development issue because of poverty, malnutrition with gradual wear in natural resources with the frequent loss of agriculture capacity. Production is limited because of the weather and the influence of the altitude in the development period and growing crops and the excessive over-grazing losing the vegetation zone in straw that keeps the water safety which support the low areas, other problem is the clearing of trees making the agricultural border larger in other to satisfy their needs.

Communities have plants and animals of strong commercial potential, conditions for recreation, tourism, ecotourism, hunting, fishing and ceremonies which can in national and international tourist attractions if they are duly organized.