Informe final práctica profesional en la Corporación para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Área de Manejo Especial La Macarena

Abstract

The purpose of this report is to present the activities carried out during the internship at the public entity Corporation for the Sustainable Development of the La Macarena Special Management Area (CORMACARENA), this internship was taken as a degree option presented to the Universidad Santo Tomás Villavicencio sectional, to obtain the degree of Environmental Engineer.

During the development of the internship it became evident that there are currently around 170 mining titles in force in the department of Meta, ninety percent (90%) of which correspond to the exploitation of construction material, such as gravel and sand that lie in the riverbed and on the banks of streams, meadows or floodplains (National Mining Agency, 2021); the remaining belong to the exploitation of other types of materials such as clays, limestone, dolomite and silica sands. In addition, there are approximately twenty (20) industrial projects in the department, such as construction material crushing plants. From the above, different activities were developed, including field visits to the different projects or mining titles that are within the jurisdiction of Cormacarena, as well as support in the projection of technical concepts of control and follow up; finally, support in the projection of trades to the different users of the Mining Group.

As a result, knowledge was obtained about the different control and follow-up activities for each of the Environmental Licenses granted to the mining titles, as well as the minor permits granted to the industrial projects under the Corporation's responsibility. From these annual follow-ups, technical concepts are made, which are evaluated by environmental professionals and expose their technical criteria according to what was observed in the field, documentation submitted in the file and compliance with administrative acts.