{"id":2731,"date":"2016-06-14T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T21:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2017-05-26T10:29:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T18:29:14","slug":"la-sequia-acaba-con-dos-lagunas-en-los-cuchumatanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/medio-ambiente\/la-sequia-acaba-con-dos-lagunas-en-los-cuchumatanes\/","title":{"rendered":"La sequ\u00eda acaba con dos lagunas en los Cuchumatanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Richard Brown<\/p>\n

El tercer a\u00f1o consecutivo de sequ\u00eda en Guatemala esta causando estragos econ\u00f3micos y ecol\u00f3gicos. Uno de los destinos tur\u00edsticos m\u00e1s populares de los Cuchumatanes en Huehuetenango, la impresionante laguna Magdalena se ha secado. Un proyecto de turismo comunitario alquila caba\u00f1as en la laguna, bien conocida por sus aguas azul verdosas enmarcadas por las monta\u00f1as. Los peque\u00f1os arroyos que han alimentado siempre a la laguna ya no lo hacen, ya que no tienen agua como ten\u00edan hace tan solo un par de meses.<\/p>\n

Un uso inapropiado del agua ha podido jugar tambi\u00e9n un papel en la condici\u00f3n actual de la laguna, ya que las comunidades adyacentes usan para su subsistencia el agua de la laguna. Sin embargo, han estado haciendo esto durante a\u00f1os y nunca antes algo as\u00ed hab\u00eda sucedido.<\/p>\n

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La laguna Magdalena al amanecer en abril de 2016. Foto por: Patricia Mac\u00edas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Otra laguna en las mismas condiciones, es la laguna Ordo\u00f1ez a 3,000 metros sobre el nivel del mar, en un area que ha visto caer sus precipitaciones anuales de 800 mililitros por a\u00f1o a 700 en la \u00faltima d\u00e9cada. Esta sequ\u00eda afectar\u00e1 a muchas especies animales y vegetales, especialmente aves, salamandras y zorros.<\/p>\n

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Pastoreo cerca de la laguna Magdalena, abril 2016. Foto por: Patricia Mac\u00edas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Herman Ochoa, representante del Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales en Huehuetenango, dijo recientemente que espera que la situaci\u00f3n se empeore r\u00e1pidamente en los pr\u00f3ximos diez a\u00f1os ya que las temperaturas solo aumentan y la temporada de lluvia es cada a\u00f1o menos frecuente y m\u00e1s intensa.<\/p>\n

En la zona donde se encuentran estas dos lagunas, las comunidades maya Mam que viven en estas zonas monta\u00f1osas remotas ganan su sustento diario gracias al pastoreo de ovejas. Las sequ\u00edas ponen en riesgo cada vez m\u00e1s sus forma de vida tradicional.<\/p>\n

Este area es conocida por lo altos indices de inmigraci\u00f3n a los Estados Unidos.<\/p>\n

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Por Richard Brown El tercer a\u00f1o consecutivo de sequ\u00eda en Guatemala esta causando estragos econ\u00f3micos y ecol\u00f3gicos. Uno de los destinos tur\u00edsticos m\u00e1s populares de los Cuchumatanes en Huehuetenango, la impresionante laguna Magdalena se ha secado. Un proyecto de turismo comunitario alquila caba\u00f1as en la laguna, bien conocida por sus aguas azul verdosas enmarcadas por […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[394,384],"tags":[14,28,612,65,613,507],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cambio-climatico","category-medio-ambiente","tag-agua","tag-cambio-climatico","tag-canicula","tag-guatemala","tag-lluvias","tag-sequia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_8121.jpg?fit=5472%2C3648&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ljt7-I3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":704,"url":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/uncategorized-es\/resumen-de-la-edicion-cambio-climatico\/","url_meta":{"origin":2731,"position":0},"title":"Cambio Clim\u00e1tico – Resumen de la Edici\u00f3n","author":"EntreMundos","date":"8 mayo, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"En estas p\u00e1ginas, varios expertos explican como el cambio clim\u00e1tico est\u00e1 afectando a Guatemala y que es lo que el futuro depara. 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