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This paper describes women's roles in the processes of territory construction and the Colombian Caribbean coast regionalization. First, we present women participation in the adaptation of the first inhabitants, through their contribution to creating the most important cultures that emerged in that region, such as Tairona and Sinu. This paper also considers native women's resistance actions against Spanish invasion; women participation in African, native, mestizo, zambo, mad criollo freeing fights against colonialism and ha the consolidation of the Republic; along with their contribution to building the social fabric that consolidated the social life of new born towns and cities; which transformed women into family group integrators, new generation socializing forces, and sponsors of the family structure performance. The second line of argument addressed in this article refers to women involvement in the regionalization of the Colombian Caribbean, by establishing and concluding that, although regionalization has happened, the recognition of its practical and strategic interests has not been guaranteed to allow changes in the social, economic, and political position. The reason is that, even though such interests were expressed in some forums held to reach an agreement on the vision and the requirements of the region, the social movement has not had any access to decision making, though this has not prevented its gaining strength in the last decades. [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]