Zonificación ambiental para el tramo medio de la quebrada trompetas perteneciente a la cuenca del Río Guavio en el municipio de Gachalá – Cundinamarca

Abstract

Brook Trompetas has ecological importance for the Guavio area, for the ecosystem services that it provides to the community and its contribution to the Guavio River. However, regardless of the potential use that should be given to the area, agricultural activities are carried out there, which affect the natural forest that the area has, thus affecting the ecological balance that must exist, especially for the native species that have their habitats in said forest. For all this, this paper proposes guidelines for environmental management that require the participation of the community in order to have conservation and sustainable use of the ecosystem. The environmental zoning was based on the methodology proposed by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development in the formulation of Management Plans and Environmental Management of Watersheds from the collection of primary information through the application of surveys to the community of the area of study that allowed to identify the ecosystem services that are in the area and in the same way to evaluate them, also counting on the analysis of the secondary information requested to the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Guavio. Within the potential offered by the study area is mainly the ecosystem services provided by the ecosystem of regulation {on, provision of food and biodiversity. It is evident the fragmentation that the forest has had in the area, since approximately 99% of the dense forest happened mostly to be fragmented forest, since this ecosystem has been intervened by the inhabitants of the sector to develop their agricultural activities. According to the results obtained within the environmentally protected zone there are areas destined only for their conservation, which is not currently the case, while in other areas the use of services can continue to be given locally, with environmental control systems focused on minimizing pressures on the ecosystem that allows to guarantee the total conservation of the territory.