The Manzanares River

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Article 304 states the declaration of all waters as public property of the Nation. The law should establish provisions to ensure the protection , use and recovery of water , respecting the hydrological cycle and land management criteria . There is a legal framework underpinning watershed management , which in turn comprises

1.Leyes organic : among which is the Law of the Environment , Spatial Planning , Urban Planning , Municipal System Act , Act of Potable Water and Sanitation and Water Bill

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Ministry of Popular Power for Education

technical school " Modesto Silva "

Cumana , Edo- Sucre

RIO MANZANARES

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Cumana, November 2015

The Manzanares River is a river of Venezuela, has its origin in the Serrania del Turimiquire to 2.200msnm and after traveling 80 km and to drain a basin of about 1,000 km² and flows into the Gulf of Cariaco, in the Caribbean Sea The name has it that the Spanish conquerors of Cumana decided to give the name of the river that runs through Madrid, capital of Spain. It is also likely to receive at the time of the founding of the name of river Cumana Cumana, since then, Madrid still was not the capital of Spain, but a very small and unimportant people. It is also possible that the name of Manzanares has not been derived from the Madrid river, but some town or place with that name, and that the name Manzanares is quite common in Latin American countries: it is repeated four times in the Spanish provinces of Madrid City Real, Logroño and Soria and three times in Colombia, Peru and Argentina, while the name as Manzanares River and the Venezuelan name is repeated in two Spanish rivers Soria and Madrid. The masterpiece of Alejandro de Humboldt describes starting the first volume, as your trip is initiated almost five years, precisely because of Cumana:

The Manzanares River is very clear waters and happily no resemblance to Manzanares of Madrid, which gives an even more sumptuous appearance narrow bridge.

A song of the same title (Manzanares River) was very famous in the mid-twentieth century, not only in Venezuela but in other countries, as can be seen in a version of it made in 1958 by the Sonora Matancera in the voice of Victor Piñero. Through the metropolitan area of ​​Cumana (Sucre state capital, with 480,918 inhabitants in 2012) has its main outlet to the north of this city and another to the east of it, near the town of El Penon; also it passes through the town of Cumanacoa in the city Montes, impacting negatively on the quality and quantity of water due to the presence of industries, legal and illegal urban areas, agricultural areas and areas of sand mining, endangering both flora Wildlife basin.

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