Plan de salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la comunidad indígena Killu Yaku, parroquia Puerto Napo, cantón Tena, provincia de Napo.

Abstract

The present research proposes: to design a safeguarding plan for the intangible cultural heritage of the Killu Yaku indigenous community from Puerto Napo village, Tena canton, Napo province; contributing to the valuation, safeguarding, protection, revitalization, and transmission of its cultural manifestations. In addition, it began with the diagnosis of the intangible cultural heritage, based on 3 phases: first, the socialization of the importance development of the safeguarding plan with community leaders, community residents, and competent authorities; second, the registration of the community's manifestations through registration cards of the National Institute of Heritage and Culture, obtaining a total of 19 manifestations distributed in four of the existing areas; and third, the assessment of the manifestations to determine the state of vulnerability, through the analysis of a matrix based on the criteria of transmission, memory, and identity, where it was revealed that 21% of the manifestations are in a current state, while 79% correspond to the vulnerable state. Subsequently, the strengths, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats were analyzed, identifying the positive and negative factors that involve in the intangible cultural heritage, from which the critical nodes and key success factors were prioritized, giving way to the formulation of the strategic objectives and strategies that guided the plan's approach, where 2 programs and 3 projects were defined. To sum, it is concluded that the safeguarding plan constitutes necessary actions for the continuity of cultural manifestations and strengthening of the cultural identity to the community's inhabitants.