Guanajuato, Gto., November 6, 2015. The University of Guanajuato, through the Department of History from the Division of Social Sciences and Human Studies, together with the Direction of Environment and Sustainability, and city halls from San Luis de la Paz and Victoria, carry out the Seminar of Studies in the Northeast of Guanajuato this November 5 & 6. The purpose of the seminar is to promote knowledge of both the natural heritage as the cultural heritage, tangible and intangible from this territory.

The coordinator of the seminar, Dr. José Luis Lara Valdés, said that this is proposed as an adequate plural space for the encounter of professors, researchers and students from several academic institutions, public administrators and habitants from the zone, so from their end can contribute their knowledge to update the existent information on the region.

UG has had presence in the northeast of the state with the opening of the High School in San Luis de la Paz, and later, with the extension unit in Tierra Blanca. The academic community of Social sciences and Human studies, specifically, has been present since the foundation of the extension unit in San Miguel de Allende with the seminar of regional history and further, when offering the common core for the bachelors in Philosophy, Spanish letters and History.

Likewise, the seminar-workshop of Pre-Hispanic studies opened in the High School from San Luis de la Paz, plus the publication of ancient maps from "Sierra Gorda" ("Santo Tomás Tierra Blanca, 1539", Antiguo Xichu de Indios, 1580") by the Direction of Extension from the University of Guanajuato in 2014 and 2105.

Dr. José Luis Lara Valdés commented that these are just some of the works that precede this seminar of Studies in the northeast of Guanajuato, which includes, besides academic activities, introduction workshops, and valuing of the natural and cultural heritage.

The participants for this seminar are from the Department of History in UG, Dr. César Federico Macias Cervantes, M. Luis Ernesto Camarillo Ramírez and Dr. José Luis Lara Valdés. Researchers from the Division of Historical Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México (UNAM), M. David Alejandro Sánchez Muñoz and M. Ulises Ramírez Casas. Writers from the city of Victoria, Don Guadalupe Arvizu, and from the city of San Luis de la Paz, Don José Alberto Lozoya, as well as the professor José René Ramírez, in charge of teaching the "Chichimeca jonaz" language at the Chichimeca Mission.

This seminar foresees permanent activities that strengthen the presence of the University of Guanajuato in this zone of the state. One of the main objectives is to generate interest in the youth from the zone because the human studies, social and earth sciences so the own habitants in the region be the ones who assume the defense of their natural and cultural heritage, tangible and intangible.