Abstract

APONTE MOTTA, Jorge. Leticia for Tourists: Imaginaries, Narratives and Representations of an Amazon City. Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.2, pp.93-111. ISSN 0121-215X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v26n2.59210.

Leticia is a Colombian city on the Amazon River, consolidated as a jungle tourist destination. This city can be viewed from three narrative perspectives: the “nationalist”, the “wild” and the “eco-adventure”. I suggest that the “performance” of the city to support the last narrative perspective is generating a deep symbolic transformation in urban monuments, from nationalist imagery to tourism related imagery. This city produced by and for tourism and the “enjoyment of the Amazon” is highly exclusionary. The hotel architecture communicates that the city enjoyed by tourists is denied to its inhabitants, producing an urbs that denies the polis and civitas dimensions of the city.

Keywords : Amazon; adventura; city; civitas; Leticia; narratives; polis; tourism.

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