Visión urbana de la Ciudad de Choluteca en Honduras para el Año 2034

Under the existing arrangement between the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras and World Vision, the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, through University Observatory the Land Use Planning, developed between the months of June to October 2015, a study of urban prospective for Choluteca city. The project was developed in two phases: 1) Diagnosis of the city with secondary information and information from territorial recognition, in addition to resulting information in workshops where surveys were applied to key stakeholders involved in the process and use of mapping and orthophotos of the city of Choluteca; It was possible to identify the main problems and potentials of the city in the dimensions of approaches: environmental, socio-economics and urbanism and infrastructure. Also the resources of the city were analyzed and how they could take advantage of better way; as a result, was obtained a synthesis of problems and potential together with a series of indicators, that allowed to know the current situation facing the city, generating with all this information a current urban model of Choluteca city. Later, we worked in phase 2) Prospective: where constraints to the growth of the city were evaluated and also built the three scenarios foresight for year 2034, cartographically was reflected the future vision of trend growth, a vision of optimal growth and finally it built an intermediate stage in consensus with stakeholders involved in the project.