Coffee Cultural Landscape-World Heritage. Between Patrimonial Discourse and Coffee Cultural Landscape

Abstract

In this present paper i make a comparison between the coffee landscape represented under the discourse of “Coffee Cultural Landscape-World Heritage” and the territory reproduced territorially by the local actors. This is expressed by the contrast between a certain type of patrimonial landscape built from an institutional sight, and a real landscape produced by the locals through economic practices in the different types of farms of the rural area of the municipality of Chinchiná, which are conceived as socio-spatial units of analysis. The methodology used in this work has a qualitative nature with and ethnographic approximation founded in the direct observations in a passive and active mode, structured and semi-structured interviews, and works in focal groups with the local residents. In the conclusions of this discussion it is showed that the declaratory is an strategy for developing a sort of mixed territory, coffee and tourism; alike, it is ethnographically displayed a territorial and economic configuration and reconfiguration of the rural area of the municipality of Chinchiná-Caldas, expressed in the socio-spatial units, proving an approaching or a distancing from the discourse of the declaratoy of Coffee Cultural Landscape –World Heritage.