VALUABLE RECOGNITION OF QUILOMBOLA HERITAGE THROUGH PARTICIPATORY MAPPING

Abstract

The process of safeguarding quilombola territories currently has problems that challenge their visibility as cultural heritage. In this context, we seek to understand the process of heritage appreciation of quilombola territories through participatory cartography, from the perspective of geoeducation. From the approach to the Conceição dos Caetanos Community, in Tururu-CE, it was possible to establish practices of heritage education and participatory mapping capable of supporting an analysis about the relevance of these processes for the self-recognition of quilombola communities. This recognition was based on the survey of elements that make up the cultural heritage of the Community and the perception of the territory as a cultural heritage in itself. With this, one realizes the importance of making viable through the geographic and cartographic look strategies of perception and valorization of quilombola communities, in face of the problems and potentialities existing in these territories.