Abstract

Various territorial spaces by location and landscape condition associated with natural heritage in Latin America, are among the most precious destinations, pressured by tourism and the global world. The rural town Villa Río Serrano next to the Torres del Paine National Park in the Chilean Patagonia is one of them, resulting in a territorial, political, administrative, cultural and economic problems associated with a planning urban policies. The article opens an empirical exploration on local and global demands in fields of natural heritage and planning, focused on receptive tourism, establishing a methodology based on the raising of conflicts in the area of study through typologies. The facts observed as a result question the Sectional Plan as an efficient territorial development tool in a remote situation, showing that a special space needs exceptional and particular planning, rather than a classic and generalist one of territories under consolidated urbanization.