The territory of the Laguna del Sauce basin -Maldonado, Uruguay-presents significant cultural heritage, which is the result of the activities of those men and women who have lived and made use of this territory from pre-hispanic times to the present day. However, it is a heritage scarcely studied, not well protected and mostly unknown. Land use regulations in Uruguay recognize the importance of cultural heritage as a vulnerable resource to be protected. In this sense, the Local Plan for land

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... planning for the Laguna del Sauce Basin, is presented as an opportunity to put into practice a methodology that starts from the systematization of the information for the identification of cultural and landscape heritage in the form of a primary inventory, to propose a heritage zoning of the territory in relation to the type of heritage assets, the scientific knowl-