Use and management of firewood by San Jose de Suaita community (Suaita, Santander, Colombia)

The firewood use on the part of the rural communities of the Colombian Andes has always been seen as a cultural practice that affects the mountain wild forests negatively. In San Jose of Suaitas Police Inspection, firewood use and handling on the part of inhabitants of the field and of a semi-urban helmet. The results show cultural practices that reflect interesting relationships with the surroundings: knowledge of the dynamics of regeneration of the vegetation, use of diverse agricultural systems as firewood source, wide use of popular taxonomies to distinguish each species and valuation of the quality of the firewood.