Through this comprehensive investigation, held jointly con Invemar, the presence of a new echinoderm registered for Colombia, it is the Star Oreaster reticulatus.

The Regional Autonomous Corporation of La Guajira (Corpoguajira) and the Institute of Marine and Coastal Research José Benito Vives de Andreis (Invemar), They made the 10 May 2012, the launch of the Marine Coastal Atlas La Guajira, an informational tool to compile, systematically interpret and display information, as a conservation strategy for the protection and restoration of coastal areas of the department.

"This important publication, will become a catalog firsthand that facilitate a more integrated approach to the management of our coastal ecosystem, additionally serve as a tool to support the various institutions in planning, management, formulation and implementation of environmental projects ", Romero Perez explains Arcesio, General Manager Corpoguajira.

In La Guajira, The coastline has a length of 404 Km. ranging from river Palomino (Township Dibulla), on the border with the state of Magdalena, to Bahia Cocinetas (Uribia), on the border with the Republic of Venezuela. Wetlands present in these areas receive inputs of water through streams with intermittent operation and the level of the water is influenced by the cycles of precipitation. In total coastal lagoons are identified in the department 32, plus dune fields, salares o manglares; all of them underwent open sea conditions and under pressure from indigenous or colones.

To carry out this work, which will be presented tomorrow at the 6:00 P.M. at the Cultural Center of La Guajira, based in Riohacha, The following components were evaluated:

Physical Component: It corresponded to the morfosedimentaria characterization of the coastal marine area adjacent to the villages of Palomino, Puerto Lopez and the municipalities of Riohacha and Manaure and sedimentary facies (sediment set can be defined and separated by other by their geometry, lithology and structure) fund marine platform to the 50 feet deep.

Biotic Component: As part of this activity the soft-bottom macrofauna of the offshore platform was evaluated, seven groups of invertebrates were also analyzed, were collected 4.749 Exemplary distributed echinoderm 45 species, which is a new record for Colombia it is the Star Oreaster reticulatus, which is cited in Category LC (least concern) in the Red Book of Marine Invertebrates. Additional to the above was carried out to study 3.601 fish specimens, belonging to 51 families.

Component suggestions: The purpose of this component was to identify the intensity (extending the scope) time dynamic coastal suggestion. The study is based on the processing and analysis of databases of open access (Internet) of 3 satellite sensors serving the study of the ocean.

Through the Coastal Marine Atlas of La Guajira, Readers may obtain information on coastal processes, biodiversity of marine and coastal ecosystems of the region, biological and technological feasibility for bivalve culture (exclusively aquatic snails, marine or freshwater) and aspects of governance with national actors, with regional and local interference in the area; with the aim of contributing to the formulation of management guidelines for integrated coastal zone of the department of La Guajira, to facilitate environmental decision-making in this area of ​​the country. Publishing a book is luxury 120 Pages, full color, containing beautiful photographs of the coastal ecosystem of the peninsula.