Ordenamiento minero ambiental de materiales pétreos en el lecho del rio Upano, cantón Morona, provincia de Morona Santiago.

Abstract

In the Upano Riverbed in Morona canton, province of Morona Santiago, uncontrolled extraction activities of stone materials were identified, since the mining concessionaires did not have extraction plans that guaranteed the conditions of the environment, causing alterations to the environment and affecting the community. Therefore, the main objective of this curricular integration work was to design a methodology for Environmental Mining Management that would maintain a balance between environmental conservation and good management of the stone materials. For this purpose, a methodological scheme was proposed that contemplated six phases: identification, delimitation, zoning, exclusion - viability, creation of the Environmental Mining Management map and proposals, indicators and methodologies, for which it was necessary to consider the criteria of a panel of experts through a multi-criteria analysis based on the Delphi methodology. Once the aforementioned phases were completed, the result was the Environmental Mining Management map, which was useful for zoning and delimiting the area of the Upano Riverbed where the extraction of stone materials is carried out in two categories: inadequate zones, where mining is not recommended, and adequate zones where this activity can be carried out, as well as for integration into the canton's Land Management Plans.