Ecology in iquira
It is necessary to create actions to prevent the spread of these crops through alternative substitution programs. Burning logging natural forests, pollution of streams, waste and sanitary sewage and garbage units, the logging in an uncontrolled manner; They are creating problems of water scarcity in major buffer zones and natural sponges of the mountains, a situation that must be controlled through educational processes and awareness of the population on natural resources. In Iquira they have declared reserve areas for conservation and protection of natural resources, two strategic ecosystems of regional importance because of its high water production and biological diversity of flora and fauna. Buffer Zone Nevado del Huila National Natural Park is located on the periphery of the Nevado del Huila National Natural Park and its special role within the National Park System is to reduce disturbances that can cause human action. It is located north of the municipal territory border with the town of Teruel and the department of Cauca, in the jurisdiction of Narvaez, Zaragoza, Nazareth, El Rosario and Lejanías paths, it has an approximate area of 11,478 hectares. Flags Alto Municipal Forest Reserve, occupies the central part of the territory taken from the edge of Banderas Tarpeya Forest Reserve south to the buffer zone of the Nevado del Huila National Park to the north; another portion corresponding to the recharge zones of streams duck, partridge and Carmen territory. It is of great strategic value because it is a river where they were born star tax sources of the Magdalena River through the Iquira River, Black River, Narvaez and Alley; Its area is 4,511 hectares., comprising land of sidewalks Villa Maria, Ibirco, El Pato, El Carmen, Quebradón, Nazareth and Zaragoza. The fragility of these ecosystems and their vulnerability to human activities, these areas have been subject to a special regime of use with the following characteristics: Main use, conservation, revegetation and restocking with native species. Complementary use, research, supervised tourism, passive recreation. Conditional use, infrastructure construction. Prohibited use, hunting, agriculture, livestock, forestry or mining.
By: CARLOS DANIEL PERDOMO TRUJILLO (10-02)
yenifer D'Luiz LeivaThe emergence of illicit crops since 1995, has brought consequences of different kinds and especially in the environmental aspect. It is necessary to create actions to prevent the spread of these crops through alternative substitution programs. Burning logging natural forests, pollution of streams, waste and sanitary sewage and garbage units, the logging in an uncontrolled manner; They are creating problems of water scarcity in major buffer zones and natural sponges of the mountains, a situation that must be controlled through educational processes and awareness of the population on natural resources. In Iquira they have declared reserve areas for conservation and protection of natural resources, two strategic ecosystems of regional importance because of its high water production and biological diversity of flora and fauna. Buffer Zone Nevado del Huila National Natural Park is located on the periphery of the Nevado del Huila National Natural Park and its special role within the National Park System is to reduce disturbances that can cause human action. It is located north of the municipal territory border with the town of Teruel and the department of Cauca, in the jurisdiction of Narvaez, Zaragoza, Nazareth, El Rosario and Lejanías paths, it has an approximate area of 11,478 hectares. Flags Alto Municipal Forest Reserve, occupies the central part of the territory taken from the edge of Banderas
Iquira founding dates back to 1694 by order of Francisco Martinez de Ospina who gives the name of San Francisco de Iquira a town built in what is now known as the alley, just are the territories of farms El Carmen, La Mestiza and San Mateo. Its first inhabitants were the Paez Indians on suspicion of a possible attack by the Indians Pijaos population decided to move to the site it occupies today to be high ground, with a strategic position to spot the enemy. So it is given the name "high mountains" as meaning that primitive voices gave the word Iquira. In order to spread the Catholic faith among the aborigines in 1656 the Franciscans founded a center of teaching and imposing St. Francis as its patron. In l672 the captains Francisco Perdomo Betancourt, Francisco Trujillo and Castro, Alfonso Montealegre and others, tried to raise the village to the category of town with the name Iquira Alley. This attempt is unsuccessful why the town was abandoned as did the Spanish in all people who did not accept his whims. Iquira In 1887 he was promoted to the rank of town and around 1907 the construction of the temple began with the participation of all residents led by the priest Lucas Ortiza;
