Current situation and comprehensive zoning of Pochocuape locality, Managua 2015

Abstract

In Nicaragua there are years of planning experience at the territorial levels, which are translate into challenges for action processes at the territories. The integral zoning of a territory has the purpose of schematize the territorial dynamics, and considers that in the division of space there are relatively homogeneous zones, but different from one another in relation to development problems. The last aspect can be used for the promotion, articulation and harmonization of visions in the face of territorial problems and their approach with local actors. The objective of the present work was to analyze the current situation of the Pochocuape territory and integrally zoning the community. The work transcends a simple inventory of resources in the different dimensions of development, but seeks to understand the logic of the location and spatial distribution of them, as well as the interrelations between the dimensions, to finish with the zoning of the community. The present study was descriptive and analytical, with quantitative approach. It had a sample of 230 households selected for convenience, and was carried out during May 2015. Taking into consideration the particular characteristics for zoning the region, it was identifi ed that despite the proximity to the urban area of district three, rurality still prevails. It was found, according to the dimensions proposed, that for environmental dimension there is a sub classifi cation in three zones, two zones for the social dimension and three for the economic. The environmental and the economic dimensions are coincident, and there is heterogeneity in the social domain.