Venezuelan scientific model created for planning
The Ministry of Popular Power for Science, Technology and Industry Interm (MCTI) through the National Endowment for Science, Technology and Innovation (Fonacit) funded research: Rio Aro, diagnosis Basin
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February 2, 2010, 12:48 PM Increase Decrease



Jean Pasquali, lead researcher on the project (Photo: Press Fonacit)

Venezuelan scientists conducted a study botany, geology, geochemistry, hydrology and the river ichthyologic Aro, south of the Orinoco River to identify the best sustainable land uses that might be useful for planning similar areas elsewhere in the country .

The research was based on the Organic Law still Spatial 1983, which was modified and adopted by the National Assembly at its first reading in October 2008 and its name changed to Management Act and Land Management are looking for establish a sustainable development, endogenous, participatory and sovereign in the new geometry of power, which proposes the strengthening of community power.

The Ministry of Popular Power for Science, Technology and Industry Interm (MCTI) through the National Endowment for Science, Technology and Innovation (Fonacit) funded research: Rio Aro, diagnosis of the basin, which took the team of scientists at the Science Institute Earth and the Institute of Zoology and Tropical Ecology, belonging to the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), the results are classified as economic, environmental and scientific.

Found in economic development opportunities for intensive agriculture in the vicinity of the river Aro, which can be a source of water throughout the year, except during drought, when the shortage can be corrected with the construction of reservoirs and the exploitation of groundwater.

It detected a significant mining potential, beyond the exploitation of alluvial gold and diamond that has been traditional throughout the lower river and Aro iron deposits of Cerro Bolivar, exploited, also of Mount Thunder and partially evaluated.

They defined the area as promising for deposits of iron, manganese, rare earth elements, tantalum, ornamental rocks, silica sand and mineral water. These characteristics and specific locations would be useful in exploring these potential deposits.

Project with implications for national development
It also found significant economic potential in obtaining several species of ornamental fish industry could develop a sustainable nature.

About Aro lower river, the researchers suggest protect this area for fish production, near its confluence with the Orinoco River, as it serves as a nursery for several species of economic importance in the Orinoco River basin.

With regard to water quality, research shows that, both surface and groundwater in the basin, are optimal for human use and other common uses, except for small areas where mineralization or contamination warned.

Jean Pasquali, lead researcher on the project, together with the research team Anibal Castillo, Ramon Sifontes, Carlos Yanes and Francisco Provenzano, said that various tourism opportunities envisioned in the Aro River.

"The tourism opportunities are wide: part of the river Aro, a strong current may serve to adventure tourism, while other routes or sectors navigation calmer, would be useful for observing flora and fauna" as well as ranches and farms as attractive places to appreciate the country life in the region.

The key element in the tourist potential observed is human. The people of the four main towns in the Basin: Ciudad Piar, La Esmeralda, Hope is Moitaco and friendly, attentive, friendly, "which could be key to developing this type of productive and sustainable industry," Pasquali said.

They also observed an economic opportunity to exploit in a sustainable way a species of bamboo, a plant of the family Poaceae (subfamily Bambusoidae; tribe Bambuseae), which grows abundantly in the forests of that area, for the manufacture of fabrics, floors high quality and handicrafts.

Based on the diagnosis of Aro River Basin, the research provides a basis for regulating resource use and conservation as social heritage, as is put in the Organic Law for the Planning and Land Management.

Pasquali stressed that implementation of this project funded by the Fonacit have implications for the development of the country, "in the Aro River results can help create a regulation and appropriate and sustainable development of the area and to create wealth and welfare" . Applied to the entire national territory, would also for a more equitable distribution of the population.

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