Estudio y localizacion de lagos de alta montaña del parque nacional natural sierra nevada de santa marta en los departamentos de la guajira y el cesar

Abstract

This report describes the activities developed by the research assistant during the second academic semester of the year 2020. Initially, the location of the high mountain lakes of the departments of Guajira and Cesar belonging to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta was carried out. Then some geomorphological characteristics of the lakes were determined in Excel for each of the departments with the diverse data collected; in which the name of each basin, reference point, location, elevation above sea level, area (Ha) and perimeter (Km) are described from a satellite approach to each of the lakes present in those departments. In addition, in the department of Magdalena, the geomorphological characteristics of the micro-basins of the lagoons present at the source of the Rio Frio and the westernmost source of the Rio Sevilla at the Cebolleta blade, the limits between the municipality of Ciénaga and Santa Marta, were studied. Parameters were determined as form factor, elongation index, compactness index. These could be determined thanks to georeferencing tools such as Google Earth and in the Software QGis v 3.10.9.