Cesar Essay

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The department of Cesar, located in the northeast of the country, is one of the most important place in Colombia. In first place, the region has five strategic ecosystems; these are La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, that has all thermal floors and was declared as a zone of a natural reserve by the UNESCO, La Serrania de Perijá,, El complejo Cenagoso de Zapatosa, El Valle del Rio Cesar and El Valle del Rio Magdalena. Additionally, El Cesar is the most productive region of Carbon (Gobernación del Cesar); for example, in 2008 the department produced the 45,82% of total of Carbon. Nevertheless, the department deals with an environmental crisis due to the strong relation between the carbon and the economy of the region and the country. Now it is important to highlight that a 49% of the exportations in Colombia are hydrocarbons (Orduz, 2011).

However, the mining of carbon in El Cesar has been done improperly since 1989. Approximately, “14% of the ecosystems of the department have been affected by the large mining industry and 71 % of the mining applications that rest in Ingeominas would affect another 85 percent of the ecosystems” (Pardo,

For instance, taking in to account the high radiation of the zone (approximately 5 KWh/m2), the photovoltaic energy projects are viable. In general, the photovoltaic panel, which is the main component of the system, convert the solar energy in electric energy. According to a study of the University “Universidad Cátolica de Colombia”, this technology began to be used in the aerospace industry. Now, after years of investigation, the photovoltaic energy is able to meet the energy demand of countries like France and Germany (Ospino & Isaza, 2016).With respect to the Cesar, there is a project ,called “El Paso”, that will have a generation of 176 gigawatt per hour (López Suárez,