ECOLOGY OF IQUIRA

ECOLOGY OF IQUIRA

ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS The emergence of illicit crops since 1995 has brought consequences of different kinds and especially in the environmental aspect. It is necessary to create actions to prevent the proliferation of these crops through alternative substitution programs. Burning logging natural forests, pollution of streams, waste and sanitary sewage and garbage units, timber exploitation in an uncontrolled manner; They are creating problems of water scarcity in important buffer zones and natural sponges of the mountains, a situation that must be controlled through educational processes and awareness of the population on natural resources. In Iquira they have declared reserve areas for conservation and protection of natural resources, two strategic ecosystems of regional importance for its high water production and biological diversity of flora and fauna. Buffer Zone Natural Nevado del Huila National Park, is located on the periphery of Natural Nevado del Huila National Park and its special role within the National Park System is to reduce disturbances that may cause human action. It is located north of the municipal area bordering territory in the town of Teruel and the department of Cauca, in the jurisdiction of Narvaez, Zaragoza, Nazareth, El Rosario and Lejanías sidewalks, it has an approximate area of ​​11,478 hectares. Flags Alto Municipal Forest Reserve, occupies the central part of the territory taking the edge of Banderas from Tarpeya Forest Reserve south to the buffer zone of Natural Nevado del Huila National Park to the north; another portion corresponding to the recharge zones of ravines El Pato, La Perdiz and El Carmen territory. It is of great strategic value for being a river where they were born star tax sources of the Magdalena River through the Iquira Rivers, Black River, Narvaez and Alley; Its area is 4,511 hectares., comprising lands of the villages Villa Maria, Ibirco, El Pato, El Carmen, Quebradón, Nazareth and Zaragoza. The fragility of these ecosystems and their vulnerability to human activities, these areas have been subject to a special regime of use with the following characteristics: Main use, conservation, revegetation and repopulation with native species. Complementary use, research, supervised tourism, passive recreation. conditional use, infrastructure construction. prohibited use, hunting, agriculture, livestock, forestry or mining.

reserve tarpeya

By: Kerly Johana Trujillo Ramirez. 1002