Lagunillas em uma Linha do Tempo: A História das Transformações de sua Paisagem
Timelines allow the correct understanding of the temporal sequence in which one or more phenomena occurred, indicating the main elements that have been marking this phenomenon and the time or period in which they occurred. Environmental History presents evidence that documents the environmental chan...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Centro Universitário de Anápolis (UniEVANGÉLICA) |
| Repositorio: | Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs2.www.halacsolcha.org:article/974 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.halacsolcha.org/index.php/halac/article/view/974 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | História Ambiental subsidência Venezuela Antropoceno petróleo Environmental History subsidence Anthropocene oil |
| Sumario: | Timelines allow the correct understanding of the temporal sequence in which one or more phenomena occurred, indicating the main elements that have been marking this phenomenon and the time or period in which they occurred. Environmental History presents evidence that documents the environmental changes that occurred in the past through this resource to identify and understand the changes that man promotes in the dynamics of the earth. In Venezuela, Lagunillas is officially the only town located below sea level (-8 m), its soils correspond to a drained swamp, devoid of vegetation and whose material was originally oversaturated with water. When the Spanish colonizers arrived, there was a water town in the area, of indigenous origin and whose population obtained from the lake, the canal and the swamp almost everything they needed, with harmony, maintaining a balance with nature. Since the beginning of oil extraction, certain parts of the ground sank to such an extent that it was necessary to build a coastal dike and in 1929, when the region became the largest oil field in Venezuela, the surface subsidence was officially confirmed and it was the last time that the Gran Ciénaga de Lagunillas appeared on a map. The triangulation of written and visual sources and georeferenced data allowed the identification of events considered historical milestones to influence the behavior of the elements described and analyzed. The subsidence not only sank Lagunillas, making it dependent on a pumping system to drain meteoric water and sewage, but also plunged it into disrepair. The search for black gold influenced the rupture of man's relationship with the land. In the area there is no research framed in Environmental History, there is no description of the evolution -and its consequences- of subsidence, which is why this research is considered a precedent. |
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