This article treats of the preservation practices adopted in Latin America, focusing the challenge of associating the recognition of plural identities with the preservation of cultural patrimony. It highlights how the relationships between nature and culture have appeared in the conceptions of historical patrimony and orientated punctual actions in the sphere of the rehabilitation of the historical nuclei and in the extent of the patrimonial and environmental education, taken as instruments for the construction of citizenship and maintainable development.
Cultural goods; Maintainable development; Patrimonial and environmental education