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Geosdiversity and landscape: an analysis of potential in Baja California, México

Authors

  • Ivonne Haide Posada Ayala Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanológicas. Km 103, Autopista Tijuana-Ensenada, CP 22860, Baja California
  • Alejandro García Gastelum Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Facultad de Ciencias Marinas
  • Viola María Bruschi Universidad de Cantabria. Facultad de Ciencias. Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra
  • Miguel Agustín Téllez Duarte
No. 48 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2014.36674

Abstract

The assessment of geodiversity is an important to implement strategies for sustainable tourism development of natural and cultural environment instrument. Since most of the landscape of Baja California in México due to its low population density is still pristine and little shocked, has high potential for the exploitation of its natural and cultural landscape, and that the activities have traditionally focused exploitation of natural resources such as livestock, agriculture, fishing and mining, have been unsuccessful because the dry land and the impact of climatic phenomena. Therefore, and considering that adventure tourism and ecotourism have started to gain importance as an economic activity due to the variety of natural scenery and cultural resources and state scenarios, a general inventory of the main georesources, attributes, actions are performed human and their ability to benefit. For this, the territory was divided into three regions: 1) Peninsular Sierras, 2) Pending the Gulf of California and 3) Pending the Pacific Ocean. It was found that Baja California has great potential to implement productive activities that revolve around landscape conservation. From the analysis, it follows that the figure of conservation of Geoparks is an option to be applied, since it implies the involvement of society in economic activities, particularly in rural communities, where historically development opportunities have been very low.

Keywords:

Georesources, geoturism, geoparks, natural heritage, cultural heritage

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Posada Ayala, I. H., García Gastelum, A., Bruschi, V. M., & Téllez Duarte, M. A. (2015). Geosdiversity and landscape: an analysis of potential in Baja California, México. Investigaciones Geográficas, (48), Pág. 19–40. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2014.36674
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