TY  - THES 
TI  - Evaluación de la calidad del agua utilizando indicadores ecológicos en el Río Pance, Valle del Cauca-Colombia
PB  - Universidad Autónoma de Occidente
PY  - 2009
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10906/80455
AB  - The watershed of the river Pance is located in the district Pance, that extends by
the geographic Valley of the Cauca river until the Natural National Park of the
Farallones of Cali where is born the river over the 3,800 m.s.n.m
Pance River main destination of the inhabitants of the city of Santiago de Cali, with
estimates that 50,000 people visit each weekend, the river, creating a confluence
of households, which produce a significant impact, which when viewed from the
economics is a positive, encouraging economic activities in the area, but a
negative from an environmental point of view.
Before the problematic ones, the following investigation with the aim of evaluating
the quality of the water of the Pance River considers taking like impact reference
the tourist activities. In order to evaluate the quality of the water of the Pance river
the direct observation was used like work methods, the implementation of the
Index of Fast Evaluation of Diversity of Habitat (IHD), and the use of indicators of
quality of the water through aquatic macroinvertebrates.
KW  - Río Pance (Valle del Cauca, Colombia)
KW  - Proyectos medio ambientales
KW  - Desarrollo sostenible
KW  - Cali (Valle del Cauca, Colombia)
KW  - Biodiversidad
KW  - Ecosistemas
KW  - Gestión ambiental
KW  - Turismo - Valle del Cauca, Colombia
KW  - Aguas residuales
KW  - Contaminación ambiental
KW  - Turismo
KW  - Calidad del agua
KW  - Indicadores ambientales
ER  -