BY:VALERIA GUEVARA, VALENTINAQUINTERO, JUAN CAMILO CHITIVA AND SEBASTIAN MIRANDA.

Caribbean

Physical and Political Map

Physical politic

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Natural Resources

Fresh water: the sea, rivers provide fresh water to the Caribbean population which is used in our daily diet. It also represents a source of trading and sweet water pantries.

Fertile land: Caribbean region has fertile land which allows agriculture and harvesting. Caribbean population is using this fertile land to make development plans cutting down tropical forests and causing mayor problems in the area because of this. This ferltile land allows the different kinds of trees and flowers to grow, causing an impact on the enviorment.

Minerals: the Caribbean region is an important source of minerals in Colombia because of the abundance of different minerals in the place such as:coal, gas, nickel, limestone, sea salt, gold, silver and titanium etc.

Natural Resources

Fish: the fish is a basic product found in abundance in the Caribbean region of Colombia. The fishing has been one of the principal activities for the population in this region. the fishes in this caribbean region gives a bigger biodiversity.

Wood/timber: the Caribbean region has a big quantity of tropical forest mainly not exploded. There is a beautiful biodiversity of forest and different timbers all around this region. this trees provide habitat for different kind of species and helps control floods

Climate

 The Caribbean is a tropical region, the temperatures are above 25 degrees, and outdoor temperatures around 30 degrees almost all year. This is a place of origin of hurricanes during certain times of the year, mainly in the months of June to December.

The Caribbean is a region of tropical climate with temperatures that vary little throughout the year, with highs of 30 degrees in summer and minimum of 22 or 23 degrees in rainy days.

The Caribbean is known worldwide for its sunshine and pleasant temperatures, mostly in the months of June , July and September, that's when there is more turism in the region

Climate Effect in the Enviorment

The climate affect many thinks here in Colombia for example they are some cultive that have to be in certain climate to grow but of all this climate changes they affect them and affect us, this climate also affect the fauna and flora because there are some animals in certain places that need certain climate so of this changes they move to other parts and trying to move they exciting, they are also flowers that need an exact temperature to grow and thanks for climate they are flowers or plants that will never see again.

Flora and Fauna

Fauna Among the most common animals in the Caribbean region are the ocelot, the

marmoset monkey, several species of snakes, rabbits, wild ducks, armadillos, snakes, spiders, birds. Also they are different animals living in rivers and in the sea such as: turtles, sunfish, catfish, snapper, sardines, shrimp, bocachico and alligator.

Flora The flora is very exotic due to the different climates, there are unique species such

as: mangroves; that are found in quantity in the Caribbean region. Also in the Sierra Nevada there are some special plants that only grow in cold climate called Frailejones.

Economic Activities

The Caribbean regions have a lot of economic activities, since they are related with they climate and physical characteristics. Agriculture: A lot of territory belongs to agriculture, some of there most

important crops are bananas,cotton and corn. Cattle and fishing:In the departments of Cordoba,Sucre,Bolivar,Cesar and

Magdalena there is a lot of farming and cattle, and in the departments near the sea there is fishing.

Industrial: There nearness to Cartagena, Santa Marta and Barranquilla, has help them lot with their development of vary economic activities.

Tourism: The Caribbean region has lots of tourism, since they have beach, landscape and its cultural diversity, and their celebration and different natural parks as Tairona.

Population

The population of the caribe is of 9.7 million persons witch presents the 21 percent of all colombians poblation, the people in the Caribbean region are spontaneous and happy. 15,7% of the population is afro- descentdent, 6,8% are indigenas and 77,5% has no identity.

Deforastion

Government corruption: Colombia had tried to stop deforestation creating national parks. When the Caribbean region Tayrona National Natural Park was created the 90% of the land was under the government control, but now the 80% of the land has been sold by the corrupt administrators. 

Wood: due to the diameter and size of the trees in mangroves, there has been over exploitation to create poles and other articles made of wood. The basin mangroves are the mangroves that are in most danger because of their proximity to different cities and villages.

Aforestation

Our sustainable solution for deforestation in the Caribbean, is Afforestation;which consists in planting the same quantity of trees that the big industries of wood/paper cut down. The industries that cut a big amount of trees, must register in the goverment and they must plant the same amount of trees they cut down, if they don't do this, then they must pay a fine, the goverment will make sure that they are acomplishing this requirement by the coordinates of the place where these new trees are planted.Some of the problems that could affect this sustainable solution is the regulation of the trees planted, because you never know if people lie or not, another issue that affects our solution is that maybe these industries won't pay the fine. We can avoid this by having check ups, were goverement representatives are sended to see if this requirement is met.

Blibiography

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