Tierra Blanca, Gto. May 29, 2017.- The academic and student community of the "Centro Interdisciplinario del Noreste de la Universidad de Guanajuato" (CINUG) assume the responsibility to transmit an environmental culture of conservation and cleaning in a protected natural area called Pinal de El Zamorano, in the limits of Guanajuato and Querétaro.

34 students of Agronomy and Environmental Engineering of CINUG, became the environmental vigilantes during the ancestral ritual organized by the Indigenous Otomí Stewardship, called "el ascenso de la Santa Cruz" and gathers more than 1,500 people.

People climb up to 3,362m to the top of the hill, who during their path have a considerable quantity of solid residues, placing them in forest ground, reason why many participants walked 12.64km to collect the waste and place posters to raise awareness in the walkers.

To the activity joined the engineer Edgar Pedro Méndez Vázquez, CINUG's professor and the physical activation area's responsible, psychologist Cristian Jesús Ortega Escoto. To the walk also joined Dr. Maricruz Romero Ugalde, professor-researcher of Campus León to observe the walk of the Santa Cruz and the anthropological implications of the ritual.

The task was made in coordination with Tierra Blanca's city hall, since it shares with UG the institutional interest of the link with the environment and promote a culture of respect and care for the environment.

Pinal del Zamorano register disperse settlements with cultural origins in the Chicimeca and Otomi indigenous groups, founders of the towns of Tierra Blanca and Cieneguilla. The place that is found in the skirts of Sierra Gorda, is a habitat for an important number of mammals, birds, reptiles and insects and endangered, threatened or in special protection species, hence, its importance of preservation and safeguard.

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