Actualización del plan municipal de gestión del riesgo de desastres, Villeta-Cundinamarca

Abstract

The update carried out by the Villeta Mayor's Office of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) arose in response to the need to update the municipality's Municipal Disaster Risk Management Plan (DRMMP) in response to rapid population growth, the rise of tourism, and the recent update of the Río Negro River Basin Management and Planning Plan (DRMMP). Community mapping also involved the presidents of the Community Action Boards in identifying critical areas and prioritizing needs, ensuring that the document reflected the municipality's realities. The DRMMP identified threat, vulnerability, and risk areas associated with landslides, forest fires, torrential floods, and flooding, as well as technological risk scenarios (structural fires, explosions, and spills at gas stations, propane gas distributors, utility companies, and Ecopetrol-Cenit). The methodological approach combined the analysis of historical data in the database located on the DesInventar platform of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), as well as a review of the information database of the consolidated emergency reports from 1998-2024 held by the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management - Colombia (UNGRD) and the database of the municipal Fire Department to identify the most frequent and largest threatening phenomena, and thus prioritize the disaster risk scenarios present in the municipality. Furthermore, the methodological approach combined the review of current regulations (Law 1523 of 2012) and inter-institutional coordination with entities such as IDEAM and Ecopetrol, to integrate natural, socio-natural, and technological risks.