Patrimonio paisajístico y biocultural: saberes hacia el desarrollo turístico de Valle de Piedras Encimadas, Zacatlán, Puebla.

The Valle de Piedras Encimadas Park was created in the year 2000; it is located in a landscape characterized by rock formations, which have allowed the development of tourism for many years. The Bellas Praderas Civil Association considers that, as a whole, it constitutes the biocultural heritage necessary for its development. The objective was to characterize the natural heritage of the Valle de Piedras Encimadas Park, and to describe the biocultural heritage that could allow participation in a dialogue of knowledge, through ethnodevelopment. Perimeter and introductory field visits were conducted in the park’s territory, during the time of tasks (March 2022), as well as workshops with four working groups in the park’s museum (December 2022), and ten semi-structured interviews with members of the Civil Association (February 2023), in addition to the consulting the park files (March 2022). The results show the park’s organization, the characterization of the natural heritage and the biocultural heritage of Valle de Piedras Encimadas, which are the basis for the management of tourism. The study concludes that the community of Camotepec has all the elements to generate its development, based on the functioning of the park, and to enrich it with the participation of professionals who collaborate in the construction of ethnodevelopment, to increase the capacity of inhabitants to decide over their future, to preserve the natural and cultural heritage, and to improve the park’s services with the resources and other knowledge from Camotepec.