Rice towns in the Cebollatí basin: settlements arising from the installation of paddy cultivation

Abstract

From the second half of SXIX, the productive organization of the exploitation of rice, in the lower basin of Cebollatí, led to rice villages that have developed into constellations converging qualified second and third level in a particular landscape nodes and attractive, where cultural and natural aspects are combined. Several productive uses have been associated with the structuring of the territory, where settlements formulation designed for production and are organized as semi-autonomous substantive part. The territory is a process and a product of individual and group practices, in which live arqueológico —Cerritos assets of Indians—, who appeal to the roots and the first inhabitants of our territory, a natural landscape of plains, marshes, lagoons and natural forests, and cultural landscape generated by rice cultivation and industrialization. This work is approached from the territorial perspective: most historic building hardware.