The thesis deals with kitchens as an ethnographic resource and point of entry for the understanding of socio-ecological transformations that have occurred around water and land in Isla Fuerte (Bolivar) from the development of tourism initiatives. The research is based on a strategy of analysis that assumes the kitchen as a starting point that transcends the strictly alimentary scope, to conceive it as a relational element and of synergy between diverse ecological, political, social and economic dimensions of the daily life of the Islanders. The thesis is part of the field of political ecology, is anchored in the critical readings on tourism and addresses the kitchens from discussions that take up some central arguments developed in the anthropology of food.