Los Santos, September 12, 2026. - In an effort to secure the conservation of national identity and to verify compliance with the processes of property preservation, the National Government, through the Ministry of Culture and in collaboration with local authorities and specialists, advances with the supervision of the restoration work of the four quincha houses that integrate the historic complex El Pausilipo, at the Casa Museo de Las Tablas Below.

) The structures, currently at an advanced stage of deterioration, are being rehabilitated by a detailed intervention that combines traditional constructive methods with contemporary tools to adapt them to new cultural and community uses.

The project is jointly implemented by the Special Projects Office of the Ministry of Culture, the Foundation for the Sustainable Development of Aduero and a team of local construction teachers, carpenters and artisan, with up to three generations of the same family participating in the work..

) The first Board of Embarra was held for the first two buildings and was a landmark at the constructive stage. To get to this stage, a strict monitoring of each previous process, including the identification and selection of mud-suitable ground, the traditional cutting of wood during the pounding phase, the production of bejuks and straw inputs and the structural construction of artisan pieces..

Once the works have been completed, the complex will have a diplomatic parlor, a coffee shop, an artisan tent and a cultural information centre..

) The Minister of Culture, María Eugenia Herrera, said that there is a priority interest in addressing challenges that threaten these customs, such as shortages of natural materials and the need to transfer old technologies to new generations, as most of these knowledge remains in the hands of older people.

Against this background, the administration leading President José Raúl Mulino reiterated institutional accompaniment through programs of documentation, research, training and strengthening of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory, ensuring a direct work plan with local communities to safeguard these constructive practices throughout the country.