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We study the geometrical properties of a unit vector field on a Riemannian 2-manifold, considering the field as a local imbedding of the manifold into its tangent sphere bundle with the Sasaki metric. For the case of constant curvature $K$, we give a description of the totally geodesic unit vector fields for $K=0$ and $K=1$ and prove a non-existence result for $K\ne 0,1$. We also found a family ${\xi }_{\omega }$ of vector fields on the hyperbolic 2-plane $L^2$ of curvature $-c^2$ which generate foliations on $T_1{L}^2$ with leaves of constant intrinsic...