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ARANGO-ARROYAVE, JOSÉ UBEIMAR. ETHNOBOTANIC ASSOCIATED TO THE TRADITIONAL MINING OF ALLUVIUM ON MIDDLE CAUCA RIVER CANNON: PEQUE AND SABANALARGA TOWNS. WEST OF ANTIOQUIA. Bol. cienc. tierra [online]. 2014, n.35, pp.45-52. ISSN 0120-3630.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rbct.n35.39659.

In the areas of use and management of the traditional territory from Cannoners Communities in the middle Cauca River region, they live in Dry tropical forests ecosystems it finds different plants sowed and wild used for traditional mining of alluvium. The present paper started of ethnographic research techniques and Ethnobotanic that with photography, taking of samples botanic, format, field notes and taxonomic identification. This research shows a stocktaking the floristic composition and some ethnobotanics notes about species and identified and recognized by traditional communities from middle Cauca river and it has a material and cultural value in the use of traditional mining of alluvium, where highlight four species, four genus and three families about practices of gold separation and seven species, seven genus that belong to six families about use in making of traditional mining accessories and Equipments. This investigation could to kind like conclusion as this type of traditional practices as the ancient knowledge associated with it continues persisting, though this practices meet threatened by other types of mining as the drags and with considered megaprojects and in phase of execution as the Hydroelectric Project of Ituango.

Palabras clave : Ethnobotanic; Traditional mining of alluvium; Middle Cauca River; Peque; Sabanalarga town; West of Antioquia.

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