Assigned Session: FS 3.128: Upstream-downstream connectivity and impacts of climate change in the world’s water towers
The Ecosystems boost the Water Security in the Central Provinces of Panama
Abstract ID: 3.5368 | Pending | Talk/Oral | TBA | TBA
Alberto Pascual (0)
Alberto Pascual ((0) Fundacion CoMunidad, Altos del Chase, 74th Street, Level 1E, 0721, Panama City, Panamá, PA)
(0) Fundacion CoMunidad, Altos del Chase, 74th Street, Level 1E, 0721, Panama City, Panamá, PA
The Santa Maria Watershed, has an extension a territory occupies a total area of 3326 km², with a length total of 168 km, representing 4.56% of the land of Panama. Identified as one of the country’s priority catchments it represents a water source for more than 200,000 people living in 15 Local Governments.
The water that’s flow in the system of rivers is generated by physical, chemical and biological characteristics from mountain, grassland and wetland ecosystems, from the source of the river in the upper part, passing through the urban centers and until it drains into the sea, there are multiple landscapes that intervene, are linked and depend of each biome for work together.
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