TUNJO DEL RÍO: Armonía urbano ambiental como estrategia de articulación entre el Río Tunjuelo y su contexto urbanizado

Abstract

Global urbanization processes have occupied the banks and basins of water bodies, generating various problems such as urban-environmental disarticulation, pollution, lack of appreciation of public space, health problems, among others; In the specific case of Latin America, the cities have turned their backs on their rivers, turning them into the main sewers of the cities and losing the urban, landscape and socio-cultural benefits of the waterfronts, a contradictory case to the rivers of other metropolises in which they are the center of development and urban life. The city of Bogotá, inhabited by 7,968,095 people (DANE, 2023) and with an area of 1,636 km² (Secretaria de cultura recreación y deporte, 2023), is delimited and served by a great environmental diversity, among these are the rivers, and the Tunjuelo River stands out with an area of 73 kilometers, being the largest river in the city, its basin has an area of 41,427 ha. 427 ha, it is born in the Sumapaz paramo and converges in the Bogotá river passing through the localities of Sumapaz, Usme, Rafael Uribe, Ciudad Bolívar, Tunjuelito, Bosa, Kennedy and Soacha, these localities have assumed a limit and have generated a negative barrier against different flooding events and, relegating to a considerable urban environmental deterioration. In this sense, the disarticulation between the river and the urban-environmental structure of the San Benito, San Carlos and Meissen neighborhoods is evident, presenting various problems.