Caracterización geográfica, ecoturística y ambiental de las playas de la zona urbana del cantón Manta.

Abstract

Manta is one of the main coastal cities in Ecuador with the greatest tourist potential of sun and beach, which, over the years is one of the most prevalent. That is why the main objective of this work was to carry out a characterization of the main tourist beaches of that city from the geographical, ecotourism and environmental point of view, as a contribution to the knowledge of each of these spaces of tourist interest. The methodology used is based on the analysis of documentary review, as well as field observation and the use of an information record sheet. They also re-recognized with the application of geographic information systems (GIS) tools, which allowed to identify physical elements on the beaches and represent them cartographically. As a result it was found that each beach in the urban area of manta has some fallacy within it, the facilities for users are not in the perfect condition, in turn pollution is one of the main factors that prevails and that is importantly centered, and that the flora and fauna of each of them is scarce. It is concluded that the touristic beaches of Manta have such characteristics.