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Geoheritage in Thermal Springs of Puruándiro, Michoacán, México

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Both worldwide and in Mexico, multiple regions with thermal springs exist and have played an integral role in culture and daily life in these civilizations since pre-Hispanic up to modern times. Thermal springs have become places of high cultural importance, and most of the times have been used for balneology or as baths of local people. Unfortunately, in Mexico a lack of knowledge about the possible direct uses of geothermal energy for all these resources exists, and the relevance of their conservation, their role in the local sustainable development, and their historical trajectory as elements of local heritage and geo-heritage. The objective of this work was to classify the geoheritage in Puruándiro. In summary, this work presents two aspects of this classification: (1) classification of geosites in Puruándiro using educational, scientific, and cultural parameters according to the first geothermal exploration in the area and local opinion via a perception survey and (2) design and presentation of didactic and multidisciplinary material in Spanish (geo-map, geo-guide, and infographics) for use in situ in which the geosites and importance of their geoconservation are highlighted. The main results of this work denote highly scientific, educational, and cultural parameters of most of the thermal springs with a great potential for the direct use of geothermal energy in addition to highlighting these parameters as part of the local geoheritage and main axis in planning sustainable development of the region.

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Acknowledgements

Authors thanks to CONACYT. Authors thanks to Keyla Rodríguez, Xochitl Flores Soto, Fabián Gutiérrez Bahena, Mariana Patricia Gómez Nicolas for their support during realization of didactic material and implemented workshops in situ.

Funding

Funding was provided by Project CONACYT 298107 “Geopatrimonio de Puruándiro.” Apropiación social del conocimiento de las humanidades, ciencias y tecnologías 2019, awarded to Instituto de Geofísica, UNAM. Additional funding was provided by Programa de Cátedras CONACYT and by Fondo Sectorial CONACYT-SENER-Sustentabilidad Energética, projects 272697 and 207032 of the Centro Mexicano de Innovación en Energía Geotérmica (CeMIE-Geo) project P-01 “Mapas de Gradiente Geotérmico y Flujo de Calor para la República Mexicana.”

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  1. Departamento de Recursos Naturales, Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior S/N. Ciudad Universitaria. Del Coyoacán, CP. 04510, Ciudad de México, México

    Mariana Patricia Jácome Paz, Rosa María Prol Ledesma, Irving González Romo, Aurora Estrada Murillo, Alejandra González Alfaro & Mayela Gómez Torres

  2. Posgrado en Geografía, Facultad de Filosofía Y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

    Víctor Manuel Gómez Piña

  3. CONACYT – Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior S/N. Ciudad Universitaria. Del Coyoacán, C.P. 04510, Ciudad de México, México

    Mario Alberto Hernández Hernández

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Jácome Paz, M.P., Gómez Piña, V.M., Prol Ledesma, R.M. et al. Geoheritage in Thermal Springs of Puruándiro, Michoacán, México. Geoheritage 13, 68 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-021-00584-6

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