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Interconnected initiatives to promote volcanic risk awareness by leveraging geoheritage in Arequipa, Peru.

Julie Morin1, Nelida Manrique2, Rigoberto Aguilar2, Kelly Sharon Llerena Garate3,4, Benjamin van Wyk de Vries5

  • Affiliations: 1Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK; 2Dirección de Geología Ambiental y Riesgo Geológico, Instituto Geológico Minero y Metalúrgico (INGEMMET), Arequipa, Perú; 3Universidad San Martín de Porres, Jr. Las, Calandrias N° 151 -- 291, Santa Anita, Perú; 4Universidad Tecnológica del Perú, Tacna y Arica 160, Arequipa, Perú; 5Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, IRD, OPGC, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, France 

  • Presentation type: Poster

  • Presentation time: Monday 16:30 - 18:30, Room Poster Hall

  • Poster Board Number: 94

  • Programme No: 7.1.20

  • Theme 7 > Session 1

Abstract

In recent years, initiatives have flourished in the Arequipa region (Peru) to promote volcanic risk education through the valorization of geoheritage and cultural heritage. These include: a guided geotourist route and quarry that the maestro canteros transformed into a field of sculptures, allowing tourism to support the survival of traditional stone sculpture activities; the recognition of this area as one of the IUGS's first 100 geosites; a short animated film depicting the formation of the Sillar, an ignimbrite deposit formed 1.65 million years ago; a book with the same characters explaining volcanic hazards; an open-access interactive map composed of 360-degree images where locals and scientists describe their environment; exhibitions displaying volcanic tephra deposits in slabs from Misti volcano at the San Agustin University and the Civil Protection Awareness Center in Arequipa; an (audio-)book in Quechua for the Colca and Andagua Volcanoes UNESCO Global Geopark. At first glance, these initiatives may seem unrelated to each other, but they are, in fact, directly connected to at least one other initiative, and sometimes to all of them. We will establish these connections and explain how they enhance the potential for risk awareness, particularly in the city of Arequipa, where over one million inhabitants are directly exposed to the effects of extreme rain events and a potential eruption of the Misti volcano.