Corpoguajira ordered the immediate suspension of the works carried out in the wetland located at the back of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare and imposed a preventive measure against Mr. Leodegar Rois Cotes.

Through an inspection visit, Corporation officials evidenced the construction of a block wall, involving the body of water. It is presumed that the intervention of this ecosystem is for the purpose of closing it to carry out infrastructure works..

The Wetland is the habitat of endemic species, migratory and foreign, that deserves all the protection of the environmental authority, Additionally, it provides its services as a buffer zone for runoff waters that come from the Che Guevara neighborhood., inter alia, avoiding flooding during the winter.

The preventive measure, made official through Resolution No. 1085 the 16 July 2013, it is of immediate execution, It is preventive in nature and will rise only disappear once the causes that originated, as long as actions aimed at preventing are made, mitigar, correct or compensate for environmental impacts related to the activities confirmed by the entity.

Through the administrative act, Corpoguajira also recommended to the Municipality of Riohacha, that in accordance with the powers granted by law 99 of 1993, advance the projects necessary for the conservation of the wetland.

It is important to clarify that the order issued by Corpoguajira is the suspension of activities as a preventive measure., but not the demolition of the work, the latter being, a sanction derived from a sanctioning process initiated, as established by Colombian laws.