Geomorphology applied to the territorial management of sandy coastlines. Guidelines for the protection, uses and sustainable exploitation of the Los Choros sector, La Higuera, IV Region.

Abstract

The geomorphological and biophysical characteristic of the area of study were analyzed to define fisiographic land units which are valued as for their natural sensibility and according to the aggressiveness of the human current and potentials activities. By means of this evaluation, the authors recommend use’s vocations, which are compared with the optimal uses land units delimited through the evaluation of use’s aptitudes of the different natural elements. That analysis was made in order to proposing sustainable uses, finally. The area of study is a not very inhabited territory into the semiarid coastal of the Norte Chico, with a high tourist-recreational potential use and with vocation of protection and conservation according to the great biodiversity and heterogeneity of landscapes. As a result of the analysis, it are evidenced a strong pressure for the residential-tourist use of the zone and a special aptitude of use to the conservation.