Abstract

HENAO-SARMIENTO, Jesús Eugenio; CARDENAS-TORRES, Miguel Andrés  and  FAJARDO-PATINO, Alirio. Environmental zoning of a forest Pacific reserve zone located in Cordoba department, colombian Caribe. Colomb. for. [online]. 2008, vol.11, n.1, pp.175-200. ISSN 0120-0739.

This work includes the completion of a proposed zoning of the Zona de Reserva Forestal del Pacífico (ZRFP) in jurisdiction of the department of Córdoba, which has allowed to establish the managing trends of the natural resources that have been implemented in the municipalities of Tierralta and Valencia, where the uses of the territory have opposite characteristics with the reason of being of these lands, that were originally mainly forest areas and reserves for providingusefulwoodresources,aswellasprotective areas, that might reach in the growth of the economy of the country. The offers of zoning use of the soils by vocation and occupation proposed by the Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi IGAC (2002) were analyzed in detail; these are the technical foundation for the subtractions, according to the Law 2 of 1959. The work of biotic characterization focuses in the forest refuges that shelter great biodiversity wealth for the region and the department. The results of the characterization and evaluation show that there is a significant deterioration of ecosystems and ecological communities of the territory because of multiple actions performed by man along history, which, besides exploiting the environmental offer, contravene in some extensions the natural vocation of the soils. Therefore, it’s important to put in consideration that given the intensity of the width and lengthwise interventions realized in the ZRFP, nowadays only some areas of natural forest remain, especially in the buffer area of the Paramillo National Park and in mountain areas bordering the department of Antioquia, which demands immediate actions of preservation and restoration.

Keywords : Pacific Forest Reserve; zoning; Córdoba; Colombia.

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