Protection Areas of the San Juanito Meta Municipality, A Look from Local Development

It arises a job that used a qualitative method, of descriptive type, with a design focus Participatory Action Research; It was addressed to holders or owners of premises inserts in the National Natural Chingaza Park (PNNCH) on jurisdiction of San Juanito Meta municipality; Semi-structured interviews were carried out to identify the influence of the adoption of Protected Areas on local development. It was obtained as a result that the community it is vulnerable to processes of theft of territories by the nation for conservation purposes; On the other hand, the potential expansion of zones with a damping function puts pressure on it. Concluding that it is necessary to assume productive reconversion processes to ensure permanence in the rural area of the municipality.