Serial sites and cultural landscapes. A model of innovative heritage management in the CCLC - Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia

Since 1992, the World Heritage Center UNESCO, has started to recognize, and include the category of cultural landscape as a typology of world heritage. This approach, by definition, identifies the legacies of the close relation between human activities and nature in each territory throughout a period of time. In this sense, cultural landscapes are conformed by elements that are related with each other but are distributed in wide territories, composing territorial networks of sites connected by cultural significance, in what can be described as serial sites. Its comprehension is crucial to fully understand the complexities and challenges these sites represents. Thus, the research, analyzes the Coffee Cultural Landscape in Colombia (CCLC) recognized as world heritage by UNESCO, to identify innovative approaches in its management and conservation as a serial site with complexities. Therefore, representing a possible reference for future cultural landscape sites in Latin America region and the world.