COMPARISON OF TWO METHODS TO MEASURE THE ECOLOGICAL VAZIO NA BACIA CAMANÁ -MAJES – COLCA -PERU

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Keywords:

Flow, Hydrology, Ecology

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to carry out a comparative analysis between several hydrological methods to estimate the Ecological Flow in the El Brazo intake in the Camaná-Majes-Colca River Basin, Peru, in this case it is a river that is born in the Peruvian Andes and flows until it ends in the Pacific Basin. To estimate the Ecological Flow for the stretch under study, several hydrological methods were analyzed from a 20-year historical series of river flow data. The source of information was the Huatiapa Hydrological Station. The indicator species to estimate the Ecological Flow is the River Shrimp whose scientific name is Cryphiops caementarius, which is economically important because it is distributed in large populations in the basin. Finally, it is worth mentioning that the importance of this article lies in the fact that the methodology and the results achieved will provide guidelines for easy use and application; that can serve as a guide to determine the Ecological Flow in other sections of the basin and in basins with similar geomorphological characteristics in Peru.

Author Biographies

Oscar Ticona Neyra, UFSM

Agricultural Engineer from the Catholic University of Santa María (Peru), Master in Ecohydrology from the National University of La Plata (Argentina), CAPES scholarship holder and doctoral student in Agricultural Engineering from the Federal University of Santa María (Brazil).

Paola Liberalesso Dimpério, UFSM

Graduated in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (UFSM) currently studying or master's degree in Agricultural Engineering, in the area of ​​​​Water and Soil Engineering, and research on dynamics of two microplastics in soil.

Marcelo Lovato Brum, UFSM

Degree in Environmental and Sanitary Engineering from the Franciscan University, Master in Agricultural Engineering from the Federal University of Santa María (UFSM) - "Calibration of Low Cost Capacitive Sensors Using the Arduino Platform". Currently studying for a doctorate in the Post-Graduate Program in Agricultural Engineering at the Federal University of Santa María, with a scholarship from CNPq and a member of the Research Group on Water and Soil (GPAS) with research in the area of ​​machine learning applied to studies of the dynamics of water in the environment.

Erickson Ricardo Ferminio da Silva, UFSM

Student at the Federal University of Santa María in the course of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering, scholarship holder in the laboratories of LEMA (Environmental Engineering Laboratory).

Lorenzo Balbueno Maciel Martins, UFSM

Student at the Federal University of Santa María in the course of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering, scholarship holder in the laboratories of LEMA (Environmental Engineering Laboratory).

Fernanda Julia Gaspari, UNLP

Forest Engineer and Magister Scientiae Conservation and Management of the Natural Environment. PhD in Hydraulic Engineering. With 24 years of university teaching, she is currently an Adjunct Professor of Graduate Studies in charge of the Watershed Management Course at the Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences (UNLP). In Post-Graduation, she acts as Director of the Master in Integral Management of Hydrographic Basins, being also Professor responsible for two courses. Deputy Director of CEIDE (Center for Integral Studies on Exogenous Dynamics).

Alexandre Swarowsky, UFSM

Graduated in Agronomy from the Federal University of Santa Maria (1999), Master's in Agricultural Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria (2001) and Ph.D. in Soil Science from the University of California, Davis (2010). He was a professor and coordinator of the Environmental and Sanitary Engineering course at the Franciscan University. He is currently Professor at the Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Engineering at UFSM, where he teaches the disciplines of Water Resources Management and Water Dynamics and Contaminants in Watersheds Hydrographic. President of the Vacacaí and Vacacaí-Mirim River Basin Management Committee, he has experience in the area of ​​Water Resources Management, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, with an emphasis on Soil and Water Conservation, transport of water and contaminants in Hydrographic Basins, acting mainly on the following topics: management of watersheds, water content in the soil, preferential flow of water in the soil.

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Published

2024-03-07

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Vol. 21 No. 2024 (2024): Water Management Journal in Latin America - REGA - ISSN 2359-1919

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