Caso de estudio de Modelación Hidráulica con Iber

Abstract

The indiscriminate occupation of the territory in Colombia due to the growing demand for space by national and foreign communities (migrants in condition of vulnerability) and the abundant existing regulations in our country but also its little applicability, have triggered a number of problems associated with the presence of people in potentially floodable areas or at least with the potential for them to occur events associated with the occasional overflow of small and large streams.

In some cases, both the policies associated with the regulation of land use, the definition of urban expansion zones and their implementation in the processes of land use planning, they may have controlled or mitigated them, but in general, people live great uncertainty about the occupation of territories prone to adverse effects of nature and especially floods.

Based on the above, it is necessary to implement new tools with low profit margins. error, that allow predicting the probability of occurrence and that help the municipal administrations and regional environmental authorities have to have elements that facilitate decision making, predicting reliably but also with the awareness of the scarce registration and the low identification that one has about the phenomena already occurred.

In this sense, tools such as the Iber model allow the integration of existing information, adjust and model strategies with a good level of precision, thus improving the levels of predictive technical confidence in addition to facilitating the institutionality elements to be able to incorporate policies, regulations and restrictions on the occupation of the territory in susceptible areas, preventing, in addition to the accumulation of belts of misery due to the already chaotic national and even global economic condition, occur in areas with high disposition to the presence of phenomena associated with floods.