Abstract
Abstract. Since 2008, the Ecuadorian Constitution gave all the rights and responsibilities to the municipalities to preserve and enhance their cultural and natural heritage. Despite the heritage richness of Nabón, historically has been considered as a poor and under development territory of the province and the country. Nevertheless, for small and rural territories like Nabón in Azuay's Province (Ecuador), the resources intended for cultural conservation are usually scarce and/or limited, and consequently it reduces the potential development of appropriate measures and preventive conservation. Because of this, the present cooperation project between international institutions aims to reverse this situation generating an appropriate working methodology with the collaboration of architects and geomatics engineers. The latter experts have been developing their profession in the field of heritage in recent times generating the geometric documentation of heritage and enhancing it by disseminating and visualizing it through geoportals and the use of mobile applications. All this geometric documentation, altogether with historical and cultural heritage information available will make it possible to monitor the existing heritage in the site, inasmuch as until now no official monitoring instrument has been established in this Ecuadorian province.
Highlights
Nabón or Nabun -in Quechua- as it was called during the Cañari era, was a wide territory populated by the Cañaris, one of the first human settlements that were present in the south of Ecuador (Figure 1).Since that time, the economic activity in Nabón has been linked to agriculture, the textiles with the production of wool and cotton fabrics have been an important economic resource (GAD Cantón Nabón, 2014)
Nabón has a wide variety of cultural and natural heritage that makes it a unique and pioneering potential to achieve the objectives of this project. In this case and as a pilot project, we have focused on the parish church of Nabón to develop and expose the methodology devised and applied in the area
Based on the Principles for the Analysis, Conservation and Structural Restoration of Architectural Heritage (ICOMOS, 2003), the preventive conservation approach entails a neverending loop that consists of four phases: analysis, diagnosis, therapy and control
Summary
Nabón or Nabun -in Quechua- as it was called during the Cañari era, was a wide territory populated by the Cañaris, one of the first human settlements that were present in the south of Ecuador (Figure 1).Since that time, the economic activity in Nabón has been linked to agriculture, the textiles with the production of wool and cotton fabrics have been an important economic resource (GAD Cantón Nabón, 2014). Nabón or Nabun -in Quechua- as it was called during the Cañari era, was a wide territory populated by the Cañaris, one of the first human settlements that were present in the south of Ecuador (Figure 1). Even if Nabón is a small town, it has an important architectural asset in the urban area. For all these reasons, on December 8, 2005 the urban area of Nabón was declared as National Cultural Heritage (Figure 2). At the end of the 15th century, the Inca arrived and occupied this territory. In the 16th century during the Spanish arrival and settlement, Nabón and its territory became the social property of the church and later they were owned by particular inhabitants. On July 7, 1987 Nabón became Canton of Azuays Province (González-Muñoz, 2006)
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