Análisis de amenaza por procesos de remoción en masa en el Barrio San José de la ciudad de Villavicencio

Abstract

The mass removal processes are a set of natural processes activated by detonating factors such as rain, earthquakes, anthropic interventions, and some others that modify the topography of the area in which they are generated. When these occur in habited places, they negatively affect infrastructures, which results in human and economic losses. This research is developed in the San José neighborhood belongs to the urban area of the municipality of Villavicencio, department of Meta, has the purpose of evaluating the threat by mass removal processes analyzing the dynamics of the land through the collection of basic cartography, preliminary studies, photographs and other information necessary to perform the modeling of the land through the ArcGis Geographic Information System.The San José neighborhood, and its adjacent neighborhoods that are made up of the neighborhoods Colinas, Camilo Torres, Islas and Los Libertadores, present potential threats due to mass removal phenomena, since they are located on the eastern slope of Cerro Cristo Rey , which presents a topography with high slope susceptible of landslides of both the rock and soil mass. In this work the threat is zoned by mass removal processes for this sector of the city of Villavicencio, seeking to contribute to the mitigation of both the vulnerability and the risks derived from this threat in the communities that live in these neighborhoods.