Impacto ambiental de la minería aurífera en el desarrollo turístico del bosque protector Tinajillas-Río Gualaceño

Abstract

The summary of this essay on the environmental impact of tourism development Bosque Protector Tinajillas Río-Gualaceño, is divided into four sections: the first deals with the history of protected forest, giving relevance to natural resources, hydrography, topography and structure forest, also the declaration as forest guard, is a brief analysis of the history of canton Limon Indanza. That is where the forest settled. The second section refers to the economic, social and ecological causes gold mining Tinajillas community and in turn the impact that caused the presence of foreigners mostly from neighboring Colombia in the canton, and is not governed by local laws for lack of control. In the third section identifies the environmental impacts to water resources, with reference to the causes that are being polluted. In the fourth section, we propose strategies to prevent mitigate and control environmental impacts generated by gold mining.