Análisis, diagnóstico y valoración del paisaje en el proyecto de ampliación de la avenida Ordoñez Lasso, para la formulación de líneas base para la planificación y gestión del paisaje

Abstract

The present work is the diagnosis and assessment of the immediate environment of the area where the project of extension of Avenida Ordoñez Lasso is located, and which aims to determine the affections that both, cultural landscape and the built heritage, have suffered due to the incorporation of linear infrastructure projects, besides generating criteria and actions for the recovery of these landscape.

During the process of execution of the works, a series of problems affected the elements that characterized and gave value to this landscape; For instance, in the course of three years that the project lasted, 90% of the vernacular buildings have been demolished, which had been registered, in 2008, as heritage assets by the National Institute of Cultural Heritage , region 6, and the Directorate of Historic and Patrimonial Areas of the Municipality of Cuenca (inventory cards are annexed, annex 1); in addition, bridges were demolished, marble crosses were removed which were first located next to the bridges of Rio Amarillo and Balzay River, and served as milestones throughout this . route. Likewise, the vegetation of riverbanks and soils with high slopes was affected, altering the edaphic profile of the soil, among other negative effects.