Diseño del sistema de monitoreo de recursos hídricos en la zona alta de la microcuenca del río Tabacay - Azogues

Abstract

This titling project proposes a redesign of the of the hydrometeorological monitoring system for the high zone of the microbasin of the Tabacay river that is constituted by four hydrologic units, Mapayacu, Condoryacu-rosario, Nudpud, and Llaucay in which monitoring of rainfall, climatological variables, and flow rates at different points are made. To carry on the redesign of this monitoring system some activities are executed i) the evaluation of the current monitoring system in the operational aspects, system structuring, data series, and personnel in charge of the monitoring system in order to determine its failures, ii) generation of cartographic information from the study area to determine the redesign parameters, iii) evaluation of rainfall data and water demanding in the high zone of the Tabacay to delineate spatial and seasonal variability and thus get information about the quantity of water that is deviated from its natural riverbed to anthropic uses, iv) getting field information through the use of surveys to have additional evidence related to the rainfall and climate dynamics in remote sites from the current monitoring spots. All this information contrasts and integrates in order to develop a proposal of a new monitoring system of hydrological resources adjusted to the scale of the high zone of Tabacay which collect representative data to the entire study area both meteorological and hydrological aspects.