Understanding the perspective of cultural heritage building in the territories, both physical and cultural parameters involvesdividing break between the material and immaterial, removing the distinction between form and content, in orderto explain and protect the significant relationships, cultural, historical and symbolic, from the understanding that citiesand local identity are created in a comprehensive manner by the joint action of diverse groups of people. Catherine Palmer(1998) in the text “From Theory to Practice” states that regional identities are constructed from the interaction of differentethnic groups settle in a territory defined by binding in a dominant ethnic group, without losing the ability to maintain andcommunicate both the identity ‘collective’ as their ethnic or social group. Therefore, the reflection about the identity cannot leave aside the arguments concerning identities ‘ethnic’ and cultural practices.This research, done by a mobility grant of the ieo seeks to inquire about the local identity of Montevideo, applying the historicalfoundation Old Town, a methodology originally designed in Master of Cultural Heritage and Territory in the Pontificia UniversidadJaveriana called flash drives, analyzes the relationship between the different tracks and intangible assets, particularly the kitchenand associated practices of production and consumption, which are in a specific geographical area, with the material tracespresent in In order to understand the ways in which people settled there built their territory from functional or symbolic aspects.