About me

Professor in the Department of Archaeoastronomy and Cultural Astronomy at the Faculty of Space Sciences and Director of the Institute of Archaeoastronomy, Cultural and Natural Heritage (IARPACUNA). I ​​have been involved in astronomy activities since 1991. I am an architect with a Master's degree in Administration, a Master's degree in Social and Economic Research, a Master's degree in Territorial Planning and Management, and a PhD candidate in Geomatics Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. I am a member of the Inter-American Society for Astronomy in Culture, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the Advanced Geomatics Applications Research Group at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD).

Areas of work and research: archaeoastronomy, architecture, cultural heritage, landscape, geomatics.

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Other Memberships/Affiliations
Technological University of Honduras

Degrees:

1999
Undergraduate     Engineering sciences
2012
Master     Social and Economic Sciences
2018
Master     Other

Publications resulting from Research
Rivera, N. (2018). Anthropic pressures in the Mayan site of Copán and its surroundings: tourism. Tourist conflicts: cases and trends (pp. 64-67). Alcalá de Henares: University of Alcalá.
Pineda de Carías, M., Rivera, N. and Argueta, C., Stela D: a sundial of Copán, Honduras, Ancient Mesoamerica, 28 (2017), 543-557.
Rivera, N., Characterization of the Copán sky from 400 to 900 AD - Eclipses, Space Sciences Magazine, volume 4, number 2 Fall, 2011, 42-66, http://www.lamjol.info/index.php/CE/article/view/2544

X RedISCA Central America Colloquium-Workshop: spaces, geographies and representations
2025
icon-pin-location Nantes, France
VI Inter-American Conference on Cultural Astronomy
2025
icon-pin-location Samaipata, Bolivia