Hijos e hijas de Las Moyas. Narrativas de un territorio en torno a la memoria del agua.

Abstract

The present research project was developed from the investigative interest to determinate and analyze the existing narratives on “Páramo de Las Moyas”, in Bogotá D.C., and his settlers, for understanding the water´s memory of this territory. During the process, was observed how settlers have guaranteed their life and permanence conditions in Las Moyas, from organization arround the community management of water and other basic needs, fundamental appearance on their social weave. In this way, water and natural environment not only determine the existing conditions in this territory, but remains on his communities´s colective memory, expressed by their stories. Comprehension of water´s memory in Páramo de Las Moyas, will then contribute to the strengthening of his sletters´s identity process, and to the defense of the organisational process that there take a place, product of this historic relation with water.