Santa Cruz de Lorica: su Geografía y su Historia como Potencial para el Desarrollo Turístico del Bajo Sinú

Abstract

The document titled "Santa Cruz de Lorica: its geography and history as potential for the tourist development of Bajo Sinú". It is centered in analyzing the potentialities with which the territory counts for the accomplishment of different tourist activities that allow the variety of enjoyment of the places. It seeks to explain the geographical, historical and cultural factors that allow the progress of the municipality as a destination because of its attributes, having the Sinú river as a structuring axis along with its system of wetlands and mangroves, where nature tourism can be developed with a sustainable approach; as well as, for its Historical Center that counts on patrimonial architectures where the mixture of the republican and Arab is emphasized, to finally complement it with the municipalities of the Low Sinú that have virtues in specific areas like the coastal zone for the enjoyment of the tourism of sun and beach and other territories where the elaboration of crafts and goldsmith's shop is manifested in different types of tourism that attract population of the local, regional and national context.