Abstract

MARTINEZ RIVILLAS, Alexander. The Mountain of Ibagué-Colombias Coffee Landscape: An Ecological Study at Geofacies and Geotopos Scale. Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2022, vol.31, n.1, pp.65-87.  Epub Sep 01, 2022. ISSN 0121-215X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v31n1.80997.

There are no studies in the region of the coffee landscape at detailed scales that can offer criteria and empirical inputs for agrarian policy decision-making. This research strengthens the GTP method (Geosystem, Territory, and Landscape), going beyond the traditional "geosystem", as it proves its ability to descend to the scales of "geofacies" and "geotopos", thus ensuring an approximation to the coffee landscape much more detailed. Based on the biophysical and socioecological information of three geotopos of the mountainous area of Ibagué, a study of the coffee landscape is carried out through the geosystem's theory of Bertrand's GTP method. As product, an integrated vision of this landscape is exposed to scales of geofacies and geotopos, and it is demonstrated that these spatial units and their empirical contents can serve as inputs for the elaboration of a scientific study of the agrarian landscape's ecology, according to the principles of the Bertrandian epistemology. Based on these results, public policy recommendations are formulated to manage coffee agrosystems, given their high environmental impacts.

Keywords : biogeography; coffee; ecology; physical geography; landscape.

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