Abstract

BELTRAN-BELTRAN, Lina Constanza. Colombian Industrial Heritage: The Determination of Production Landscapes at Bogota's High Plain. Apuntes [online]. 2008, vol.21, n.1, pp.26-43. ISSN 1657-9763.

The understanding and acknowledgement of Colombia's industrial legacy has been dominated by traditional perspectives that when drawing up inventories, enhance the individual object and rule out the dynamics of production that were developed and consolidated. As an alternative, this paper proposes an approach that combines the ideas about industrial heritage and cultural landscapes as a starting point to identify, value and bring together the tangible and intangible heritage of Bogota's High Plain productive history which gives its industrial cultural identity. As a methodology, three productive processes of which documentation from the pre-Columbian era was available are studied and related mutually in three different periods, as part of a production process or as a result of exchange between different regions. The presence of water as a resource for production and distribution is included as a factor in the reconstruction of these landscapes. Classifying these traces, three production landscapes were reconstructed, and methodologies are proposed for identifying and valuing the remains of production that could be part of the industrial heritage of Colombia.

Keywords : Industrial Heritage; Productive Cultural Landscapes; Bogotá High Plain; Bogotá's High Plain History of Production; Territory.

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