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RIVERA CRUZ, María Leticia; ALBERTI MANZANARES, Pilar; VAZQUEZ GARCIA, Verónica  e  MENDOZA ONTIVEROS, Martha Maribel. La artesanía como producción cultural susceptible de ser atractivo turístico en Santa Catarina del Monte, Texcoco. Convergencia [online]. 2008, vol.15, n.46, pp.225-247. ISSN 2448-5799.

The rural environment offers an economic alternative based on the binomial nature and culture. The natural resources are a tourist attraction which altogether with the cultural peculiarities difference the areas, grant them a very own identity. In Santa Catarina del Monte these natural and cultural characteristics are conjugated in the elaboration of stick-made crafts; they recreate items with Christmas motifs. Rural tourism is considered to be a motor of this zone's development, bringing economic benefits to the domestic groups who commercialize these pieces and boosting at the time visiting the forests and springs of the place.

Palavras-chave : crafts; rural tourism.