ANáLISIS ESPACIO-TEMPORAL DEL CAMBIO EN LOS BOSQUES DE ROBLE (Quercus humboldtii Bonpl.) Y SU RELACIóN CON LA ALFARERíA EN AGUABUENA, (RáQUIRá– BOYACá)

this research was conducted at aguabuena, ráquira–boyacá, and the main objective was to iden tify the changes in the settlement patterns and oak - forest cover, due to the development of new tech nologies and destinies for ceramics production. the study was carried out using aerial photographs from 1985 and 1993 processed in arcgis v. 9.0, as well as the application of participatory methods and spatial statistics. the spatio-temporal analysis of the forests allowed the measurement of perime ter and area changes and the number of fragments, where the loss of forest cover was 43.43% for the evaluated years. for analytical purposes related to the ceramics production organization, two different types of workshops can be pointed out: domestic and family - industry. in the domestic workshops spatial aggregation is due to the forest presence, its relative and different antiquity. the family - indus try- workshops are located along roads, for their relatives and population increment. each ceramic production system represents different forms of relations with nature; the domestic ones are locat ed in the oaks forests, using high quality fuel in the heating ceramics, while the industrial-family looks for the roads with the purpose of centralizing the production and favoring the intermediate rela tions. these two modes of production reflect the human role in the change and creation of new land scapes from the pottery.