Medicinal ethnobotany as a strategy for teaching biodiversity in the Puerta Roja Sincelejo-Sucre neighborhood

The concept of biodiversity is the derivation of ecological processes, such as competition, natural selection and speciation, therefore within education they are recognized as fundamental within the teaching of biology, constituting an interdisciplinary element, which is why, in this work, is integrated into ethnobotany with the purpose of being applied as a strategy for teaching biodiversity, becoming an effective tool in the recognition of botanical concepts and popular knowledge in this community.The study was carried out in the Puerta Roja neighborhood, semistructured interviews were applied to 30 students from the community, transmitting their knowledge about medicinal plant species.Through a mixed approach, it was possible to register 16 medicinal plants, included in 14 families where the family stands out: Lamiaceae Rutaceae y Fabaceae showing a high diversity in terms of the vegetation present in this rural area.