Estimación de la pérdida de área en los humedales de Bogotá en las últimas cinco décadas debido a la construcción y sus respectivos efectos

Abstract

With the title of the most populous city in Colombia, Bogota demands the greatest amount of urban land since the 1950s, due to the migration of the rural population to the cities where the industrialization took place, and in the particular case of the national territory The displacement of the peasantry is increased by the armed conflict, as a consequence of these economic and social phenomena the new incoming groups must be welcomed, which begin to settle in the Bogotana periphery, arising the need to supply public services, roads Access, hospitals, schools, among others. This leads to an uncontrolled growth of the city where, in some inter-census periods per decade, there is an increase of more than double the population, but increasing the factor of the lack of urban planning in the second half of the last century and the loss of environmental policies, most of the city's wetlands are affected, due to the landfills that are carried out in these bodies of water, the construction of housing and different structures for institutional use, these uncontrolled practices lead to the deterioration of these, From contamination to partial or complete desiccation.