Lima biotopo: ecosistemas de montaña, patrimonio arqueológico indígena y activismo en los intersticios urbanos de la megalópolis andina

Abstract

The objective of this research project is to analyse Lima, Peru as a microcosm of the Andean area, by deepen the study of the relationship between mountain ecosystems and archaeological heritage originating in urban interstices of the megalopolis. The periphery of the city is often linked to threatened ecosystems, archaeological sites converted into landfills or wastelands and informal urbanisation. The study seeks to analyse how the recovery of open spaces and Andean ancestral practices currently contributes to the sustainable transformation of informal settlements. In these territories where a series of spatial conflicts become usually manifest a new type of environmental activism, linked to indigenous heritage and the surrounding natural environment, emerges from the community posing a refreshing alternative to the processes of unlimited urban expansion offered by legal agents.