Corpoguajira was one of the environmental authorities signed with the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development, the agreement to begin work to mitigate coastal erosion in the country, one of the most serious environmental problems plaguing the Colombian coast.

Through the signing, a joint agenda that includes a monitoring protocol will be developed beaches, as a tool to measure changes in the costs, which serve to collect historical data coastal dynamics and guide the most appropriate solutions to the future, demands regarding the use of the services of these ecosystems by communities and different sectors of the economy.

The country has more than 3 thousand kilometers of coastline, of which 30% They are affected by erosion, mainly in the departments of Atlántico, Cordova, Nariño and Sucre and insular area.

As environmental authority, Corpoguajira has developed important work to help alleviate this problem, including the study of the Andean Development Corporation stands (CAF) through which actions are developed for a socio-economic characterization of this issue and its importance in the short and long term.

Some recommendations made by the Corporation are as follows: implement and properly develop Management Plans Comprehensive Solid Waste, which allow no pollution of beaches by these wastes. Riohacha, eradicate sewage pipes in the communities in the areas of Marbella and other neighborhoods. Try to minimize the impact of work that runs on Puerto Brisa, through dredgers, since they may be generating crisis in fishing in the districts of Mingueo, Punta de los Remedios, Palomino and the municipality of Dibulla. Tend creating strategic reserves or deposits of sediment to improve the mitigation of erosion phenomenon, inter.