Diagnosis

Diagnosis Guatemala City is located in a territory made up of 42% of ravines known as ravines. The ravines used to be natural spaces frequented by families and friends, however, they have suffered severe pollution problems, neglect due to the lack of waste treatment, formal and informal invasion, erosion and deforestation. Many of them have even become garbage dumps and landfills. The ravines are an integral part of the city and must be considered within the urban dynamics. They have the potential to be meeting places, routes of sustainable connectivity within the city, water collectors, reservoirs of biodiversity, green lungs and urban integrators. With the desire to advance in that direction, the collaborative work between Fundación Ciudad Emergente and Fundación Crecer, Taller Acá, and Taller Torus is triggered around the development of a Participatory Empowerment Plan for the ravines.