Percepción socio ambiental de las comunidades Platanales y Sánchez por la construcción de represa de Río Grande, cantón Chone, Manabí

The research aimed to evaluate the socio-environmental perceptions from the communities of Platanales and Sanchez of Rio Grande dam in Chone canton, Manabi. It was run as a non-experimental research, bibliographic and descriptive methods with techniques of observation, interviews, field work visits and surveys to 70 families affected directly were employed. The results based on information from the studies identified the main features of the construction of Rio Grande dam, located at 15 km from Chone, 1 km downstream of the confluence of Rio Grande and Platanales River (geographical coordinates 9.923.000N and 612.700E). The dam is designed to regulate the contributions of water to Rio Grande with three purposes: to ensure the population and industrial supplies for Chone and surrounding towns until 2038, meet the demand for water for irrigation in an area of 2,220 ha and help reduce flood risks in city avenues by controlling Rio Grande. The reservoir will reach a working volume of 75.74 million cubic meters (cubic hecto meters), which will regulate 52.76 million cubic meters annually, allocating 40.81 million cubic meters (77%) for irrigation; and the remaining 11.95 million cubic meters (23%) for population and industrial supplies. The socio-environmental perceptions of the inhabitants which include environmental damage from burning, loss of natural resources such as soil, biodiversity, landscape, and water from the springs that families used to all kinds of consumption, affected by the construction of the dam.

• Main Author: Muñoz Salgado, Gema Andrea (author)
• Other Authors: Zambrano Muñoz, María Gabriela (author)
• Format: bachelorThesis
• Language: spa
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Represa río Grande; Percepciones socio-ambientales; Recursos naturales; Biodiversidad
• Online Access: http://repositorio.espam.edu.ec/handle/42000/228