Corpoguajira in its responsibility as environmental authority of the department of La Guajira, control operation performed in coordination with environmental lookouts and Santa Barbara Battalion assigned to the Tenth Brigade of the National Army in the Protective Forest Reserve Manantial de Cañaverales, located in the municipality of San Juan de Cesar, area highly affected by the influx of visitors during the weekends most of whom engage in activities prohibited within the conservation area declared, altering the balance of this valuable ecosystem for the region.

Operating in response to the call of appropriate community aimed ban for bathers, and aware of and sensitive to visitors who were on the source of the high degree of waste contamination of organic and inorganic waste generated, informing addition to the importance of this tributary water for the inhabitants of this district considering that the source is the upstream source of the aqueduct of this population.

Note that this protected area has an environmental management plan designed by the corporation where the uses and prohibitions are contemplated booking.

Contemplation tourism, landscaping, bird watching and passive recreation are some of the uses permitted in this important area; on the other hand, it calls for visitors to avoid activities such as bathing in the water body, formation of campfires and stoves, extraction of timber and wildlife species, burnings and construction of structures within the reserve area.

If you know of any fact which harms the natural resources of this forest reserve welcome to contact with green lines that are available Corpoguajira 24 hours: 3106581142 /3185858383 /3016008352.