Hacienda el Carmen: dolientes del patrimonio

Abstract

In 2007, one of the largest indigenous cemeteries in Latin America was discovered in the town of Usme, on the southern edge of Bogotá, putting Hacienda el Carmen on the map of admiration, curiosity, tradition, and memory. , the heritage and the dispute. The find, which has more than eighty thousand square meters, 135 human remains and 300 thousand ceramic fragments, is recorded in a point in Bogotá that has been forgotten for years and in which diverse and different interests converge that obey different orders, such as the fight for decent housing, the conservation of habitat forms that have resulted from long years of occupying the territory, concern for the care and preservation of natural resources, the search for shelter for an increasingly dense population and the recognition of the ancestral knowledge and ritual practices of the Muisca community of the city and its surroundings.