Rural land-use planning according to land use capability, Rumipamba basin, Ecuador

Planning is the highest relevance tool for different government levels, in the Republic of Ecuador. For this reason, the Provincial Government of lmbabura decided to carry out a study in the Rumipamba micro basin, in La Esperanza District, lbarra municipality, whose objective is to complement the Provincial Development plan and land-use planning for a better use and regulation of rural soil. The USDA's based Land Evaluation System was applied to know its Agricultural Use Capability. According to the edaphoclimatic characteristics of the area, the crops currently established and the land use capability determined through this study, it was concluded that it is necessary to go back to the agricultural uses that decades before were based on Andean farmings like spinach, jicama and mashwa. As a whole, this is based on the agro ecological principle of diversifying species and genetic resources in this micro basin.