Administration of the Tabacundo Irrigation Ditch and Implications of the Cayambe-Pedro Moncayo Territory During the 20th Century

The historical construction and management trajectory of Tabacundo’s acequia and the Cayambe Pedro Moncayo Irrigation Project in the twentieth century, allows us to visualize the complex local development established in this territory, as a result of changes in legislation, institutionality and national economy. This analysis strengthens these processes results and impacts understanding and reflection of, through the empirical review of available documents and information obtained directly with the territorial representatives related to the administration of the Acequia and project execution.   Tabacundo’s Acequia two management models identified during the last century and the future of the modern project, determine their own characteristics and specificities, which respond to the local coexistence of differences and combined developments, especially at the productive and social level.   The conflicts over the water resource management are evident at the end of the 20th century, particularly between the management and service provision of the Acequia irrigation service, by the municipal administration of Pedro Moncayo, and the territory´s different service consumers. Deepening their convergence or differences with the same local and provincial institutions that now begin  the Cayambe Pedro Moncayo Irrigation Project construction. 

• 第一著者: Castillo Vaca, Luis Alfonso (author)
• フォーマット: article
• 言語: spa
• 出版事項: 2020
• 主題: irrigation; management; social conflict; territory; water; agua; conflicto social; gestión; riego; territorio
• オンライン･アクセス: https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/letrasverdes/article/view/4092