Implementation of a cartographic tool to support tourism in San Juanito Meta Colombia

Abstract

The application of tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become an efficient technical support for planning, as well as for the recognition of the territory; establishing itself as a facilitator in the resolution of conflicts, as well as in the promotion of rural spaces allowing a better management of the territory in addition to a better regional understanding. The purpose of this work is to show the use of a GIS tool for the promotion and support of community rural tourism; carried out in the municipality of San Juanito in the department of Meta Colombia, considered a peripheral zone; the support helped to contextualize and enhance the vision of the interested parties in the destinations proposed by them. A mixed methodology of explanatory order was used that allowed the intervention with the community to be carried out efficiently. The result was the characterization of the area, the interactions with Protected Areas and the determination of twenty-three strategic points for community tourism, of which ten are generated outside of these; Maps were designed in which these points are related, constituting a database for the use and planning of tourism in the municipality of San Juanito.