Architectural heritage background of the department of atlantico

Abstract

The study of the development of peoples and the state of conservation of their heritage is an extremely important subject, since it helps to know, among other things, the ways of life of a place and the cultural identity of its people at a specific time. The study of the architectural heritage antecedents in the department of Atlántico is proposed, in the specific case of built heritage, which allows not only to know the degree of maintenance of the structures that form part of it, but also to explore the different ways of understanding the environment, based on factors such as its morphology and typology. Some municipalities in the South of the department of Atlántico have been affected from the natural catastrophe occurred by the winter hour in 2011, which has caused a strong impact not only in the state of the buildings, but in the socio-economic field, generating hopelessness in a community rooted in a place, which is commonly organized around a public space flanked by a religious unit and administrative buildings, surrounded by numerous houses, which could translate into an urban morphology typical of a programmed and standardized activity of the Spanish colonization. The study of the architectural heritage antecedents in the department of Atlántico is designed with the intention of providing municipal administrations with a tool that serves as support to request, in accordance with the Norms and Criteria of the Ministry of Culture, the allocation of resources for the Programs of Restoration and Maintenance of National Monuments carried out by the Directorate of Heritage.