Proyecto de manejo y protección de páramos y fuentes de agua del sector de los Galtes, parroquia Palmira, cantón Guamote, provincia de Chimborazo.

Abstract

The present research work is a Management and Protection Project of Moors and Water Sources for Galtes area, located in Parroquia Palmira, Guamote County, Chimborazo Province, with the purpose to create and strengthening on inhabitants knowledge, attitudes, and values in management and protection of moors and water sources. It applied surveys to 293 families of the population and interview to the representative of “Unidad de Ambiente del GAD Provincial y del Ministerio del Ambiente de Chimborazo”. In addition, the georeferencing of water sources for protection was carried out. On the other hand, it obtained the following results: the 75% indicates that they do not have knowledge about the management and protection of moors and water sources, while the 95% of families want to know about management and protection, and indicate that they would like to be trained through workshops. Therefore the present work has been welcomed to work on three specific objectives such as: Training in the importance of protection and rational use of resources as moors and water. Protection of the vulnerable area of water sources, and monitoring of execution of processes. Finally, it recommends the implementation of the present project, due to it has the technical parameters and management strategies, which will allow the recovery of the biodiversity of moors and restoration of water flows in quantity and quality for the population in the future.