Spatial Distribution of Public Spaces in the Central District of Honduras

Abstract

The territorial balance of the recreational and cultural offer of the Distrito Central city (Tegucigalpa y Comayagua) and the classification of the public spaces according the administration type, are analyze in the article “Geospatial Distribution of the Public Spaces in the Distrito Central of Honduras”, to now of the availability of the public spaces of the 21 Cultural Agenda.

To get to the objective, methodologically, with the tools of the softwares of geographic system information for analyze the concentration and dispersion of the cultural, recreation and sport infrastructure in relation to the center or the city to make the classification of the public spaces according the type of administration (public, privet and nonprofit) and with thar generate the indicators of the availability of public spaces.

Of the analysis of the maps concludes that the most part are sport installation, there are lees appropriations of cultural installation. About the geospatial distribution, there are three tendencies, one, the location of sport installation are distributed throughout the city, the cultural installation are concentrate in the center of the city and third, the limited availability of parks and residential places where residents of a neighborhood to make their recreation.

Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Vol.7(1) 2014, 61-75