Bioculturality, heritage and cultural landscape. Balsas-Tepalcatepec Basin, Michoacán, Mexico

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https://doi.org/10.26512/patryter.v9i18.55565

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bioculturality; heritage; Tierra Caliente, Michoacán; cultural landscape; management.

Abstract

The concept of bioculturality includes contributions from different fields of knowledge and its holistic and interdisciplinary vision that allows us to see heritage from a new paradigm, according to the inseparable relationship between nature, cultural objects (material heritage) and transmission of knowledge (the immaterial). To observe the intrinsic relationship between bioculturality and heritage, the region known as the Tierra Caliente of Michoacán, located in the Balsas-Tepalcatepec hydrological basin, in the west of the Mexican Republic, was selected as a case study. To achieve the objective, the physical-geographic characteristics and history of the region from pre-Hispanic times to the present are reviewed; as well as the existing material and intangible heritage wealth, to understand the changes and how the most recent events linked to illicit crops have negatively impacted bioculturality and heritage. The research was supported by bibliographic review and field work.

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Author Biographies

Eugenia María Azevedo Salomao, Michoacan University of San Nicolas de Hidalgo, UMSNH, Morelia, Mexico

Professor and researcher at the Faculty of Architecture of the UMSNH

Luis Alberto Torres Garibay, Michoacan University of San Nicolas de Hidalgo, UMSNH, Morelia, Mexico

Professor and researcher at the Faculty of Architecture of the UMSNH

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2026-03-12

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Azevedo Salomao, E. M., & Torres Garibay, L. A. (2026). Bioculturality, heritage and cultural landscape. Balsas-Tepalcatepec Basin, Michoacán, Mexico. PatryTer, 9(18), 01–17. https://doi.org/10.26512/patryter.v9i18.55565

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