Sistemas hídricos en la interfase de la ciudad de Santiago de Chile y la Cordillera de Los Andes

Abstract

This article intends to restore the value and identify the natural processes of the territory, focusing on the relationship between the hydric system and the city of Santiago, given the natural presence of the Andean foothills. From this approach, the current challenge of adaptation of cities to climate change demands definitions and interventions in the foothills area that transcend in the environmental protection of natural territory and the sustainable strategic planning. The main goal is to reveal the structural importance of the waters from the mountain range to the urban-natural context in the foothills, which will allow to establish the basis of a territorial strategy for the reconnection of the urban fabric and the original landscape in this transitional territory characterized by the foothill ravines, which will allow the adaptation of the use of this territory to the climate change since the diversity of the natural processes of the mountain range to the urban complexity. The opportunity of the natural and artificial water system for the symbiosis of both circumstances, urban and natural, is demonstrated, confronting the problems of loss of biodiversity, drought, decrease of water infiltration, increase of temperature and socio-natural risk.