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    Gestión comunitaria del riesgo en territorios colectivos anfibios - Consejo Comunitario Los Manatíes
    (Universidad EAFIT, 2025-11-26) Castañeda Valderrama, Julián; Jiménez Pineda, Enilda; Palencia Julio, Karen; Guzmán Martínez, Juan Carlos
    The recurrent flooding that affects the Los Manatíes Community Council reflects accumulated transformations in a profoundly altered amphibious territory. Located in the Urabá region, this territory has been shaped by decades of timber extraction, agro-industrial expansion, armed violence, land dispossession, and the progressive degradation of wetlands. Although these issues have been widely documented, their persistence shows that existing knowledge has not translated into structural changes capable of reducing vulnerability to flooding. This research addresses this situation from a situated and participatory perspective grounded in Participatory Action Research (PAR), using social cartography, participatory workshops, interviews, and the review of institutional documents. The conceptual framework brings together risk perception and community-based risk management, understood as processes through which communities interpret and confront threats based on their history and experience, with relational ontologies that frame flooding as a socially and environmentally constructed phenomenon. The findings show that current flooding results from the interaction of multiple factors: the construction and reopening of channels, wetland loss, sedimentation of the León River, organizational weakening, and external pressures on the territory. The process strengthened local capacities through community learning in the use of cartographic tools and the creation of participatory maps and seasonal calendars, through which the community territorialized environmental transformations, including the spatialization of artificial channels. Moreover, the work resulted in the co-creation of three strategic lines for risk management, formulated from local knowledge and oriented toward addressing flooding. The research concludes that strengthening the amphibious culture, environmental restoration, and community governance is essential for advancing risk-management strategies co-created with the community. The case of Los Manatíes offers insights to address a broader structural challenge: rethinking the relationship between territory, economy, and community life in a context of climate crisis and accelerated ecosystem transformation.