Publicación:

Análisis espacial y temporal del componente hidrobiológico de la quebrada las delicias, cerros orientales de Bogotá D.C.

Resumen

Las Delicias creek is an important hydrographic source located in the town of Chapinero, in the eastern part of the hills of the city of Bogotá, which flows into the Salitre river. Today, due to the different anthropogenic activities, these ecosystems have been degraded and, consequently, effects on water, which is a vitally important liquid. Since it is essential for agriculture, industry and the basic needs of human existence and for the survival of all known life forms. It is also a service provided by the Las Delicias creek and that was damaged years ago due to the presence of settlements in its rounds and deficiency or absence of sewage, in the lower part of the micro basin contamination is observed by the dumping of waste and due to the alteration of its channel to supply the Aqueduct or to deposit wastewater, therefore we cannot know exactly what its level of quality is for the supply of the surrounding communities, even if they make use of it, it cannot be given affirmation if the water that emanates is a record for the different activities and more than this stream has been impacted along its channel, also reducing its condition, the degradation due to a decrease in quality leads to the loss of possibilities to cope with a large number of uses, which implies doing the corresponding studies to make an inference of the water quality of this source both at the time Dry and rainy. The Las Delicias creek, being a freshwater system, is very susceptible to anthropic modifications and has been used as a waste deposit, whose main consequence has been the disappearance or reduction of some species that make up the biotic communities. That is why in recent years the concept of water quality has lately focused on including all the components of the environment and not only emphasizing the physicochemical parameters, because an organism is a good indicator of water quality since its presence informs of the state of health of the aquatic environment in which its biological cycle develops.