Evaluación de asentamientos urbanos alrededor del humedal “El Burro” en la localidad de Kennedy, Bogotá

Abstract

This project is based on the changes that were evident in an evaluation project in "El Burro" wetland located in Kennedy City, between the districts of Castilla and Tintal, whose purpose is to evaluate the importance of an ecosystem that oxygenates and provides environmental support to its sector, and due to a large urban deployment has been affected in the reduction of its land in the long term of 20 years date, with only 7 hectares currently, being only 13% of its total area. Colombia, one of the world's richest countries in biodiversity, is strategically adapted to the line of Ecuador in South America, for its invaluable amount of wetlands, we have more than 30 thousand wetlands according to (MADS, 2015). Of which Bogota, the main city has 35 wetlands, 20 of them are not recognized, 15 are called wetlands and strategic environmental reserves. Throughout these years, the increase in the birth rate, the economy and the diversification of the sectors, we have increased in an accelerated way the urbanization, and the adaptation of land for housing, such as buildings and residential houses, in order to visualize the almost 9,500,000 thousand inhabitants, what is the destination of the natural areas, the last step for the development of society, and the last step for the development of wetlands in the city that has been affected by the control of lands in their peripheries.