Diseño de un programa de manejo de sostenible para impulsar el aviturismo en la zona de uso público del área ecológica de conservación municipal Runahurco, cantón Gualaquiza, provincia de Morona Santiago.

Abstract

The present investigation proposes: the avitourism management program in the zone of public use of the Runahurco Municipal Ecological Reserve in the Gualaquiza Canton, province of Morona Santiago; through the use of experimental and application methods with bibliographic and field research techniques for the collection of information. It consists of three phases: the first part of the results, diagnosis, situation, behavior, physical, spatial, sociocultural, ecological, territorial, economic, productive, political, administrative, ornithological inventory through the use of techniquesthatTheyrecognizetaxonomicinformationofwhatwereobtained 104 species recorded distributed in the types of ecosystems of the eastern mountain ous forests, activities that were enhanced by linear transects, counting points, in addition to the studies of the biodiversity indices determined the areas with potential to carry out birdwatching, the avifaunal potential index was also determined, which was graded with states of conservation status, endemism, distribution, relative relative, specialization and habitat, seasonality, known natural history, and Finally, the potential of the site information in the information that is maintained and that help us. The second phase consisted of carrying out a market study where the potential tourist demand responses are analyzed, the interview with the tour operators, the current situation of the infrastructure, the plant, the attention and the activities of the territory, thethirdphaseitisaboutmanagementguidelineswheretheimplementationstrategiesofthefacilities in the protected area, the control program and the carrying capacity, the diffusion program and the tourism promotion, the control and the monitoring of the biodiversity and the training program for local birdwatching guides.

Keywords: avitourism management - avitourism – ornithological inventory.