Plan de salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial de la comunidad Cobshe Alto, parroquia Achupallas, cantón Alausí, provincia de Chimborazo

Abstract

The purpose of the present research is to design a safeguarding plan about intangible cultural heritage for “Comunidad Cobshe Alto”, Parroquia Achupallas, Alausí county, Chimborzo province, to maintain traditions and intangible customs proper of the community through strategies aimed at protecting the cultural lifestyle, inculcating in young people and other people through tourism. It began with the territorial diagnosis of basic aspects of the population, after in made the inventory of Cultural Heritage, by using the sheet NPCI, in which identified 28 intangible Cultural events that still exist I the collective memory. In addition, it conducted the inventory valuation to assess aspects such as: relevance of each event according to people´s daily activities, current level of transmission, community recognition, social and cultural sense, the level of respect of each event and diversity of individual or collective rights. Consecutively, it made the SWOT identifying critical knots, key success factors, strategic objectives and strategies to establish four programs and eleven projects aimed at safeguarding intangible heritage. It concludes that “Comunidad Combshe Alto” has intangible cultural heritage, but with the purpose no to lose it, the plan tries to revitalize and ensure respect for every event, promote social cohesion of the people, create cultural spaces that generate tourism and especially to sensitize young people about the importance of maintaining alive their identity and sense of belonging to the place where they have grown into a unique cultural space.

Key words: intangible cultural heritage, safeguarding, cultural events