Origen y revalorizacion de los pueblos del arroz en la Cuenca Baja del Cebollatí

Abstract

The Cebollatí basin, east of Uruguay, is part of the Merim Lagoon basin shared between Uruguay and Brazil. It is a territory, with strong environmental values whose structuring is characterized by geography. A depopulated territory until private agricultural societies are established that unleash occupation processes that change the productive, social and economic matrix of the area.The research, with the purpose of generating knowledge to use cultural resources, focuses on the systematization of the territorial structure resulting from the cultivation of rice that generates forms of occupation and use strategies that formed a new space with physical, economic and cultural identity own.It culminates with reflections prone to improve the quality of life of the rural environments of the rice villages by linking the cultural heritage with the networks of natural spaces and challenges related to the public and private sphere