Los objetivos de este estudio son: -Estudiar el comportamiento hidrológico e hidroquimico del sistema kárstico de Ucrumachay. -Realizar una primera estimación de los flujos de elementos disueltos y de la tasa de erosión kárstica

In the Amazon floodplains, hydrological variability plays a crucial role by shaping the habitat, offering shelter and feeding or breeding areas. During the dry season, some fresh water turtles such as the yellow-spotted turtle (Podocnemis unifilis Troschel, 1848) use the sand banks at point bar areas as breeding sites, which must be available in time for the start of oviposition. In this study, we used altimetry-derived water level data from radar satellites combined with in-situ hydrological measurements to evaluate water level variations and relate them to oviposition starting dates (2003-2012) from Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, Peru. Synchronous hydrological behavior was found between the major river stems (Ucayali and Marañon) and the inner rivers (Pacaya and Samiria), thus enabling the utilization of water level in the main river stem to correlate with oviposition in the inner r...

This study evaluates the uncertainty in the estimation of annual and monthly sediment flows in four mountain basins of the Pacific Ocean in Peru. For this end, samples at different time scales (hourly, daily, and monthly) were recorded. The database was broken down into a numerical base to simulate several sampling frequencies. From these timing frequencies, the annual and monthly flow was computed. Likewise, we compare the observed and simulated data, calculating the degree of uncertainty using statistical tests. The results for the 25 and 75 percentiles show that there is a high temporal variability in these Andean watersheds, whose strategy of measurement of solid flows can vary from six to 12 days, thus underestimating ~ 20% annually. While for estimating suspended sediment yield (SY) to a monthly time step in the rainy season (December to May), a sampling frequency between 1-5 days,...

El macizo kárstico del Alto Mayo (San Martin, Perú) tiene una red de drenaje desarrollada, activa y poco estudiada. El propósito de este estudio es determinar los caudales de las resurgencias y sus cuencas hidrográficas correspondientes. Los datos hidrológicos y pluviométricos utilizados provienen de los observatorios locales (ANA y SENAMHI) y del proyecto KarstAm. Los caudales medidos alcanzan hasta 24 m3/s en promedio para algunas resurgencias, situándolas entre las más grandes de Sur América. La poca variabilidad temporal del caudal de uno de los acuíferos (Río Negro) muestra un comportamiento atípico en relación a los acuíferos kársticos, pareciéndose más a un acuífero poroso. Los caudales específicos de las cuencas topográficas son superiores a la tendencia regional, por lo que las cuencas hidrográficas han sido recalculadas suponiendo la presencia de captación...