The Regional Autonomous Corporation of Cundinamarca (CAR) stopped, with the imposition of a preventive measure, a construction near the water mirror of the Chisacá-Los Tunjos Lagoon, located in the protected area of ​​the Sumapaz paramo, in a rural area of ​​the south from Bogota.According to the Corporation, it was a complaint made by the community that alerted the environmental authority, which proceeded to visit the ecosystem and found that work was being carried out there for the construction of a booth on the banks of the natural dam, apparently to carry out tourist work."From the Bogotá-La Calera Regional Directorate we immediately attended to the complaint filed and established that the building was being built with prefabricated concrete, which would presumably be used for tourist purposes," explained Sandra Riveros Barbosa, director of the office. CAR's Bogotá-La Calera region.The official added that in recent months the complaints from the local community and environmental leaders have increased, warning of continuous visits to the various areas of the Sumapaz paramo, due to the sale of tourist packages to attractive places, including the frailejone forests. and the Chisacá lagoon.“We strongly reject this situation.This ecosystem is of great importance for Bogotá and the country, it is the largest wasteland in the world and it is an area whose main use is conservation, it does not have a tourist vocation,” said the regional director.“The Chisacá Lagoon is the water mirror where the Tunjuelo River is born, one of the main tributaries of the middle basin of the Bogotá River.It is a space of historical and cultural interest due to the ancestral uses given to it by the indigenous communities settled in the savannah of Bogotá”, she added.Faced with this situation, the CAR Cundinamarca made a new call to the people of Bogota and the inhabitants of La Sabana not to acquire these tourist plans, to refrain from participating in them and to report the operators that offer them to the environmental authority, the National Police and the local Mayor's Office. .For now, the entity announced that it will continue with the pertinent actions against those responsible for advancing construction in this natural ecosystem, to whom a sanctioning process was opened, and whose preventive measure consisted of the immediate suspension of said activities.In recent days, in an operation against illegal mining in the municipality of Sutatausa (Cundinamarca), the CAR through its Integrated Unit for Environmental Governance (UIGA) imposed a preventive measure consisting of the suspension of activities at an exploitation mine and extraction of mineral coal that did not have an environmental permit.The operation took place in the village of Peñas de Boquerón, El Manzano property, where the Corporation, in the company of the Army and the Police, witnessed the operation of machinery for the exploration and extraction of underground mineral coal in flagrante delicto.“During the diligence we found five workers inside the mine entrance.After the discovery, we imposed the preventive measure of suspension of activities, since it did not have an environmental license issued by the Corporation”, said Clara Álvarez, leader of the UIGA of the CAR.Among the machinery identified by CAR officials were a winch, a metal pressure tank and two screw compressors, equipment used for the extraction of mineral coal, which were seized by the entity."We also found an engine, presumably a tractor, suitable to allow access and exit, whether ore or elements that are used for internal maintenance of the mine," said Álvarez.According to the Corporation, the production of charcoal affects soil, air, flora, and water resources, since various pollutants such as mercury, lead, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide are expanded during the combustion process.We have updated our T&C of the web portal.If you wish to know said update, you can access the T&C by clicking here.Customer service channels Service hours Monday to Friday: 7:00 am to 7:00 pm Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 am to 5:00 pmFor judicial notifications e-mail: juridica@semana.comAll registered trademarks are the property of the respective company or of PUBLICACIONES SEMANA SA The total or partial reproduction of any of the contents that appear here is prohibited, as well as its translation into any language without the written authorization of its owner.