Muestreo y medición en situ de parámetros físicos-químicos, en el Río Machángara, sector Sur-Quitumbe, parque lineal Las Cuadras

Abstract

The birth of a river originates in the high parts of the mountains, in the wilderness thanks to its geography, flora and soil type allow accumulated water to flow to the lower parts by gravity, a process that occurs in the top of the Atacazo and Guagua Pichincha Volcano that come together to form the Machángara river, south of the city of Quito, Pichincha Province. Today, increasing urban occupation progresses rapidly saturating the space of the city, transforming the river Machángara in a site unprotected and contaminated. The Metropolitan District of Quito, so as scenically recover sections of Machángara, has designed several linear parks, spaces built without interrupting the natural course of its channel, example is the linear park "Las Cuadras", located in the sector Quitumbe south of Quito, it goes across a stretch of river Machángara, stretch with nothing acceptable, especially when entering organoleptic characteristics, but these features improve to complete their journey and leave the park. With this reference it is to prove or disprove the existence of evidence of self-purification of this section by a physico-chemical analysis of water.