Wood energy traditional knowledge four rural communities of Pinar del Río, Cuba
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The illegal appropriation of forest products and in particular of firewood it is an invasion problem of the population of the tropical countries that causes enormous damages and transformation of the forest landscape, to the rural communities and the national economies. In particular at Pinar de Rio province this appropriation problem free of the wood in plump wooden form, charts and other selections, is presented with remarkable incidence to be the county of more forest cover in the country. The objective of the work is to identify the use of the wood species as energy resource in four communities of Pinar del Río: La Majagua, Los Jazmines, San Vicente and Quemados. The ethnobotanic techniques were used for the identification of the different wood species through the rising of open interviews and they were consulted with the samples of the Xyloteca of the Experimental Station of Viñales to carry out that anthropocentric classification inside the collection. It was identified 36 wood species distributed in 27 botanical families and 34 generics. Myrtaceae family was found as the most part the consumed by the population for use domestic dendroenergetic.
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