Agro-ecotourism trail design with circuit shape based on natural and productive potentials at the ICIDRI Masatepe Experimental Center, Polytechnic University

Abstract

Agrotourism in Nicaragua is a theoretical-practical activity that is carried out in areas or farms with a productive focus (whether agricultural or agricultural) and / or with natural environments (forests) in a sustainable way in order to generate products of agricultural or livestock origin, or forestry to the user and owner who wants it. In this sense, it is necessary to integrate this theme in spaces with similar characteristics. This study was carried out at the Experimental Center of the Institute for Training and Research in Integral Rural Development located in the city of Masatepe, department of Masaya, Nicaragua, owned by the Polytechnic University of Nicaragua, with the aim of carrying out a design of an agricultural circuit ecotourism based on its natural and productive potentials. Three stages were contemplated: (I) The planning and organization that facilitated through a previous visit, the times and ways to collect the required information; (II) Field work in which the information was recorded on two visits to the site to delimit the area, carry out a flora and fauna inventory, and the proposal of interpretive stations; and (III), the analysis and interpretation of all the information collected in conjunction with the team of teachers from the National Agrarian University, the Training and Research Institute for Integral Rural Development in Masatepe and the Polytechnic University of Nicaragua was achieved; the proposal was reviewed and accepted. As results we have: from the found scenarios, 11 interpretive stations in a time no longer than three hours, being able to observe in each one of them a diversity of flora and fauna, they also offer a range of activities that promote contact with nature.