Local rural/urban community development in the municipality of San Blas, Nayarit

Abstract

The municipality of San Blas, Nayarit, is considered a diamond in the rough; and, this port-town, aspires to recover the world/class economic-commercial boom and splendor that it had at the end of the 18th century. An analytical research project was developed, comparing the socio-economic conditions and political participation that the rural and urban population had with respect to the conditions and socio-economic well-being that they have experienced in the ten most recent years (2012-2022). Also, we asked people what were their development and advantage expectations taking into consideration the infrastructure advances and what has been built in the most recent five years on the beach area of ​​the municipality. We start from a conceptual theoretical framework based on local development, including the economic, social and political aspects of each of the urban and rural communities to which we had access. It is considered an exploratory and explanatory research with a mixed approach, since techniques and tools from quantitative and qualitative approaches were used. The main and most relevant result of our research is that 84 percent of our informants, expressed, stated that their family and community environment has experienced social and economic progress in the most recent decade (2012-2022).  A 9 percent of the people mentioned that the situation was the same; while 6 percent declared that the socio-economic situation worsened both at the family level and at the village level.