Diseño de un sendero Ecológico como estrategia para fomentar el conocimiento de biodiversidad, Colegio Juan Pablo Segundo, Villavicencio.

Abstract

The trekking is one of the activities that allows man to interact with the environment, allowing to know the natural wealth that an area has, thus creating ties that relate ecotourism activity with biodiversity conservation. However, hiking should be oriented to methodologies that simplify alterations in the environment because of visitors. The Juan Pablo ll school in the city of Villavicencio, is immersed in a wooded area, which makes it have an attractive environment around it, this allows the development of the design of an ecological path whose fundamental characteristic is the enjoyment of the environmental environment to from the criteria of conservation of natural resources. For this reason the main objective was to design an ecological path as a pedagogical strategy to promote knowledge of biodiversity, which was obtained from knowing the physical characteristics (width, slope, degree of compaction and soil texture) of the path and identify the species which showed the titi monkey, guacharaca, cannonball, bore, among others that served as an input for the design of the environmental interpretation scripts and the stations with their corresponding attractions, in addition the technical criteria were estimated and established based on the load capacity for the management of the ecological path. The load capacity was estimated based on the methodology of Cifuentes (1992) based on the calculation of physical and real load capacity, where the visiting factors such as time and time were taken into account for the physical load, in addition to the space available and the need for space that each person requires and for the actual load was developed from the environmental and ecological characteristics of the trail, on the other hand the environmental impacts were identified through the matrix of importance associated with hiking; Finally, the proposal was socialized with the students through a workshop to evaluate and know the level and importance of the environment for them and it was recommended to incorporate the ecological path themes in the PRAE.