El proyecto minero Cobre Mirador y su relación con el plan de ordenamiento territorial de la I. Municipalidad de El Pangui y El Plan Nacional del buen vivir (Sumak Kawsay)

Abstract

The project “Cobre Mirador” is the first large scale mining operation in Ecuador. The same one is located at the south-east of the country, close to Zamora river valley in Zamora Chinchipe province, El Pangui Canton, adjacent to the ecuatorian-peruvian border. This mining operation, should be regulated by the ecuatorian Develop and Zoning Plan “Plan de Desarrollo y Ordenamiento Territorial (2011)”, developed by the Pangui municipality in concordance with the Good Life National Plan “Plan Nacional del Buen Vivir (Sumak Kawsay)”. Meanwhile, this regulation is not happening, in the future we will not have any idea about the demographic consequences caused by the temporal and definitive immigration during the operation time by the transnational CRCC-Tongguan Investment Co; the activity will involve a change in the socioeconomic and culture dynamic, and a deficiency in the basic infrastructure ,as well. The lack of planning will have strong consequences like a wrong ground use and the environment deterioration.