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This paper explores the territorialities present in the Eje Cafetero's city region, an urban system located in Colombia's center-west expressed in the relations of appropriation and identity manifested by its inhabitants. Through the semi-structured interview applied to social actors, the existence of a territorial belonging anchored in the past (colonization, coffee culture) was evidenced, but it is renewed with the current phenomena and redefined from them: the city region as a territory for development acquires importance in the discourse of the actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some reflections and advances derived from an ongoing research project called "Territories of water and networks of practice and learning for the appropriation of knowledge and collaborative management in the southern edge of the Capital District". It focuses on problematizing and evidencing the underlying polysemy after the idea of the border applied to the city of Bogota, and especially to its southern territories. In this sense, it is argued that there are many and different edges interacting and overlapping each other, aiming at building a more complex and comprehensive view of the territory on the southern edge of the Capital District. The methodology is based on the revision of secondary sources, complemented with interviews with key informants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this present paper i make a comparison between the coffee landscape represented under the discourse of "Coffee Cultural Landscape-World Heritage" and the territory reproduced territorially by the local actors. This is expressed by the contrast between a certain type of patrimonial landscape built from an institutional sight, and a real landscape produced by the locals through economic practices in the different types of farms of the rural area of the municipality of Chinchiná, which are conceived as socio-spatial units of analysis. The methodology used in this work has a qualitative nature with and ethnographic approximation founded in the direct observations in a passive and active mode, structured and semi-structured interviews, and works in focal groups with the local residents. In the conclusions of this discussion it is showed that the declaratory is an strategy for developing a sort of mixed territory, coffee and tourism; alike, it is ethnographically displayed a territorial and economic configuration and reconfiguration of the rural area of the municipality of Chinchiná-Caldas, expressed in the socio-spatial units, proving an approaching or a distancing from the discourse of the declaratoy of Coffee Cultural Landscape -World Heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]