Abstract

HENRY, Velásquez Valencia; MENJIVAR, Juan Carlos  and  ESCOBAR, Carlos Alberto. Identification of soils susceptible to risk erosion and with hight capacity of water storage. Acta Agron. [online]. 2007, vol.56, n.3, pp.117-125. ISSN 0120-2812.

The investigation was carried out in seven methodological steps under integral approaches, holistic analysis, logical sequence, participation and simplicity. The following aspects were highlighted: Conceptualization and contextualizacion, soil sampling , data processing, data spacializatión of the information, identification of susceptible areas to risk erosion with higher capacity of water storage, management norms and socialization of the investigation. The methodological proposal was validated and adjusted by a case of study in the rural areas of Chicoral, watershed of the Bitaco river, Municipality of La Cumbre, Cauca Valley, Colombia. Using participation processes and agreement with the communities of the study area, the diagnostic of the causes and consequences that intervene in processes of physical soil degradation were reached. At the same time, the places with higher potentiality of water storage were localized. All of these factors are important for planning and rational use of the natural resources in a watershed.

Keywords : Degradation of soils; vulnerability; conservation; sustainability; integrality; planning; erotion risk of water.

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