Conservación y manejo sostenible del espacio sagrado cerro las guacas por la Institución Indígena el Mesón, Morales-Cauca

Abstract

The pedagogical proposal, carried out at the El Mesón Educational Institution, called: Conservation and sustainable management of the sacred space Cerro Las Guacas by the Indigenous Institution El Mesón, in the municipality of Morales,- Cauca, seeks to involve students, teachers, the elderly knowledgeable and eleventh grade parents in the construction of sustainable management strategies of the natural forest and arboreal resources of the sacred space Las Guacas, as well as to cooperate in the management of protected areas of the sacred space and recognize this hill, as a space where experience and potentiates spirituality, since this space of life has undergone changes in its composition and structure due to ignorance of the indigenous, peasant communities on plant species with economic, medicinal and ecological potential. Criteria such as community participation in the development of the inventory were taken into account flora of the hill, as well as a process of restoration of the most diminished species, in this case the oak tree, the elaboration of an artisanal nursery and the systematization of all the species trees found, identifying their main uses. Another criterion taken into account was the valuation of forest resources, such as the resource water, oxygen, genetic, carrying out a critical-reflexive conversation with the young people, parents and older people in the know in the house of the tulpa located inside the study space. Finally, another very important criterion taken into account in the research is the strengthening of spirituality in the young participants, understood as the good and healthy relationship that is must have with all mother earth beings, they will participate in a ritual of harmonization, cleansing of energies using medicinal plants and guided by the greatest spirit