MAPEAMENTO COLABORATIVO DEL ITINERARIO CULTURAL DEL FERROCARRIL DE CALDAS: Patrimonio ferroviario de Dosquebradas (Colombia) como recurso para el desarrollo sostenible del Paisaje Cultural Cafetero
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The railway heritage of the Coffee Cultural Landscape (CCL), despite its historical value, has been neglected and excluded from comprehensive protection policies, which has affected its conservation, valuation and social appropriation. In this context, the research aims to co-create a cultural itinerary along the old Caldas Railroad together with the communities that inhabit its surroundings, through a methodological tool under construction based on collaborative mapping, which will identify, value and make visible the heritage resources associated with the railway line, integrating natural elements, historical constructions and social actors. For the first application of this tool in the municipality of Dosquebradas, we considered the CIIC methodology for identifying cultural itineraries as a basis for defining the stages of their structuring and linked them to the categories provided by the concepts of territorial, industrial, identity, and sustainable tourism heritage. As a result of the collective mapping, the hypothesis was confirmed that the railway meets the conditions to be considered a Cultural Itinerary and that its recognition and use by local communities enables the formation of a regional environmental and heritage corridor that articulates urban and rural spaces and actors in the coffee landscape not yet considered in planning instruments. In this way, diverse knowledge and actors are integrated, fragmented visions of heritage are overcome, and the Caldas Railway is positioned as a pivotal axis for participatory and sustainable territorial development in the CCL.
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7219226756