Anthropological and demographical study of the potential athletes from 9-14 years old, from a mountainous municipality (Review)

Resumen

It was performed a non experimental and transversal research, to identify physical anthropological patterns on children from 9 to 14 years old, from a Cuba’s mountainous municipality. To statistical processing the proportions calculation, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Kendall's W coefficient of concordance, one sample T-student test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Levene tests was applied. It was concluded that the researched population: are experimenting a strong crossbreeding process, where even predominates individuals whose ethnic external traits show certain Amerindian trend; have different growth and development patterns in relation to the rest of Cuban nation; and due to their inferior stature regarding to the rest of the country, possesses conditions little favorable for those sports whose structure of performance demands very high statures.