Francisco José de Caldas y las transformaciones en la visión del paisaje geográfico en Colombia

Abstract

The landscape has served in geographical studies as a unit of territorial analysis through elements provided by cultural geography to integrate the geomorphologies of the physical world and the cultural morphologies developed by human ingenuity. This article is a result of the research project: Territorial Marks and Landscape, which is committed to characterize the analysis of territories and their communities based on conflicts with the transformations of the global production model in Latin America through a methodological commitment trajectory nurtured by key authors such as: A. Berque, (2009) Cosgrove (2008) and Nogue (2010). As a result, a genealogical approach to the landscape vision in Colombia is presented, which positions Francisco José de Caldas's role as a hinge thinker in the transformation of visions of the colonial landscape to the republican landscape in Colombia and perhaps in Latin America from a little-visited geographical perspective.