Cabo Rojo-Pedernales, Un Desarrollo Turístico Planificado Desde Su Concepción Con Un Enfoque De Urbanismo Sostenible

Abstract

Abstract: The Tourism Development Plan for Cabo Rojo consists of a multidisciplinary project that seeks to order the tourism potential of Pedernales, through a compendium of research and analysis to determine the foundations that will establish the basis for the development of a Master Plan. For this purpose, technical engineering analyses were performed, such as geological, topographic and hydrological studies, were developed, as well as a syntax of the environmental considerations and guidelines that have been taken into account for the proposals, including the forecasts of the effects of climate change and based on the guidelines emitted by MIMARENA. The schematic proposals are made to define the basic infrastructure of the project in road, sanitary, electrical and telecommunications aspects. As a result, that Cabo Rojo, Pedernales tourism development is considered to have a high incidence of environmental protection, being declared by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve and having Ramsar sites, which induces a focus on sustainable tourism in environmental, sociocultural and economic areas. Successful benchmarks are analyzed, recognizing as prominence the contribution to the achievement of the UN-SDGs, ecosystem vision, low environmental impact, community value, carbon footprint compensation and the inclusion of sustainable alternatives for basic services. In addition, the landscape is one of the foundations for the design, proposing the conservation of the species as characteristic elements of the development. Finally, the intentions of development of the Master Plan are the promotion of the preservation of biodiversity, the promotion of an inclusive economy and cultural richness, the planning of the territory in synchrony with the natural and social environment, the consolidation and diversification of the tourism offer and the creation of an infrastructure system for low impact tourism development.