Distribución y características de tierras campesinas en la microcuenca Atécuaro

Abstract

Ethnoedaphology studies the perception that peasants have about the properties, nomenclature, taxonomy of soils or lands and their management in agriculture. A map was made of six peasant lands and traditional knowledge about their characteristics was recorded: Charanda, Revuelta, Barrosa, Tepetate, Polvilla and Tepetatosa; are distributed in the foothills and plains of the Atécuaro micro-basin. They have unique characteristics of each land class, although they may share some attributes with each other; they have similarities in nomenclature and characteristics with lands from other regions of Michoacán, except for Tepetatosa, which has not been recorded in the state.