The Board of Corpoguajira, It approved the agreement by which he declared Bañaderos – Camarones River upper basin- as Integrated Management District (DMI). The new protected area has 10.820 hectares and is located in the jurisdiction of the municipalities of Riohacha, Hatonuevo, Barrancas and Distraction.

With the declaration, the Management Plan was also adopted DMI, which it was structured by the following areas: preservation, restoration and sustainable use. The document prohibits mining activities, inadequate waste disposal and wastewater; use of agrochemicals, commercial or sport hunting; deforestation, burning and the introduction of species of plants and animals, that could cause serious risks to existing resources in the area.

Corpoguaijra, Biocolombia, retains Colombia, the Fund for Environmental Action and Children and The Nature Conservancy; They articulated actions to carry out a detailed characterization work in Bañaderos, which allowed us to establish, together with local actors, the viability of the declaration as protected natural area.

in Bañaderos, the upper watershed of the river will be protected Tomarrazón – Shrimps, to maintain its offer in terms of quantity and quality, ensuring water supply to the population permanently.

The work will advance allow conservation of plant communities that provide habitat for threatened wildlife species, as frog, the morrocoy, el cóndor andino, inter. Additionally, the functionality of the area as a strategic space for ecological connectivity between the Serrania de Perija and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta will remain.

An Integrated Management District is a geographical area, in which landscapes and ecosystems retain their composition and function, although its structure has been modified and whose natural and associated cultural values ​​are set within the reach of the human population, to be allocated to sustainable use, preservation restoration, understanding and enjoyment.