Abstract

LOPEZ, José Pablo; MEDINA, Walter; BELLOS, Laura Iudith  and  MARTINEZ, Facundo. Geoturismo en el valle de Tafí: el desarrollo de georutas como contribución al conocimiento geocientífico de la sociedad. Ser. correl. geol. [online]. 2022, vol.38, n.2, pp.21-30. ISSN 1666-9479.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo7738336.

This contribution is referred to the geoheritage as a resource and is framed in the geological context of the Tafí del Valle zone, in the province of Tucumán, Northwest Argentina, with the aim to evaluate its geotourism potential. The study area is the Tafí valley, an intermontane basin located in the northern tip of the Sierras Pampeanas Noroccidentales. It corresponds to a tectonic depression limited to the north and east by the Cumbres Calchaquíes and to the west and south by the Sierra de Aconquija, being crossed by a regional structure called the Tafí Megafracture. Geosites are those places where the most characteristic and best represented geological features of a region outcrop. Their knowledge, inventory, disclosure and protection is of great importance due their scientific, pedagogical, cultural and tourist value. From a first stage which consisted of the analysis and the inventory of the sites of interest (SIG), two georoutes called Lithological Georoute and Geomorphological Georoute are proposed. They represent a valuable resource to develop spatial and temporal knowledge of the Tafí valley throughout geological time. The first one includes all the geosites whose main characteristics are based on their lithology, while the other includes those geosites in which the genetic processes developed under weathering conditions are exposed.

Keywords : Geotourism; Geoheritage; Geosites; Georoutes; Tafí del Valle; Argentina.

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