Human induced discharge diversion in a tropical delta and its environmental implications: The Patía River, Colombia

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dc.citation.journalTitleJournal Of Hydrology
dc.contributor.authorRestrepo, Juan D.spa
dc.contributor.authorKettner, Albertspa
dc.contributor.departmentUniversidad EAFIT. Departamento de Geologíaspa
dc.contributor.researchgroupCiencias del Marspa
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-23T20:20:25Z
dc.date.available2021-03-23T20:20:25Z
dc.date.issued2012-03-06
dc.description.abstractThe Patía River, the number one in terms of sediment yield ~1500tkm -2yr -1 draining the western South America, has the most extensive and well developed delta on the Pacific coast, measuring 1700km 2. During the Holocene, nature forced the Patía delta to the south; however, a major water diversion, starting in 1972, diverted the Patía flow to the Sanguianga River, the latter, a small stream draining internal lakes from the Pacific lowlands. This human induced discharge diversion shifted the active delta plain back to the north and changed the northern estuarine system into an active delta plain. Overall, major environmental consequences of this discharge diversion in terms of morphological changes along the delta coast and distributary channels, are evidenced by: (1) coastal retreat along the abandoned delta lobe; 63% of the southern shoreline is retreating at maximum rates of 7myr -1, with a corresponding coastal land loss of 106myr -1; (2) transgressive barrier islands with exposed peat soils in the surf zone; (3) abandonment of former active distributaries in the southern delta plain with associated closing of inlets and formation of ebb tidal deltas; (4) breaching events on barrier islands; and (5) distributary channel accretion in the northern delta plain by morphological processes such as sedimentation (also in crevasses), overbank flow, increasing width of levees, interdistributary channel fill, and colonization of pioneer mangrove. The Sanguianga Mangrove National Park (SMNP), the largest mangrove reserve in Colombia, measuring 800km 2, lies in this former estuary, where major hydrologic and sedimentation changes are occurring. Observed environmental changes in the SMNP, include (1) seaward advance of the sub-aqueous delta front at the Sanquianga inlet evidenced by an increase in tidal flat area from 5.4Mm 2 in 1986 to 14Mm 2 in 2001; (2) freshening conditions in the Sanguianga distributary channel, a hydrologic change that has shifted the upper estuarine region (salinity <1psu) downstream; (3) downstream advance of freshwater vegetation, which is invading channel banks in the lower and mixing estuarine zones; (4) die-off of approximately 5200ha of mangrove near the delta apex at Bocas de Satinga; and (5) recurrent periods of mangrove defoliation due to a warm plague. Further analysis indicate that during the past two decades, processes such as mangrove erosion in the delta shore, are the result of a short-term relative sea-level rise of 5.1mmyr -1 for the 1984-2006yr-period, after the devastating tsunami of 1979. In the Patía catchment, erosion rates have been more pronounced during the 1970-1980 and 1990-2000 decades, as a result of land degradation and deforestation. Preliminary results indicate that relative resent anthropogenic influences on the Patía River drainage basin have altered the deltaic environment and beyond significantly. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.eng
dc.identifierhttps://eafit.fundanetsuite.com/Publicaciones/ProdCientif/PublicacionFrw.aspx?id=1573
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.12.037
dc.identifier.issn00221694
dc.identifier.issn18792707
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dc.identifier.otherSCOPUS;2-s2.0-84856802923
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10784/26890
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
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dc.rightshttps://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/0022-1694
dc.sourceJournal Of Hydrology
dc.subject.keywordAnthropogenic influenceeng
dc.subject.keywordChannel bankseng
dc.subject.keywordCoastal environmental changeseng
dc.subject.keywordCoastal landseng
dc.subject.keywordCoastal retreateng
dc.subject.keywordColombiaeng
dc.subject.keywordDelta plaineng
dc.subject.keywordDeltaseng
dc.subject.keywordDie-offeng
dc.subject.keywordDistributary channelseng
dc.subject.keywordDrainage basineng
dc.subject.keywordEnvironmental changeeng
dc.subject.keywordEnvironmental consequenceseng
dc.subject.keywordEnvironmental implicationseng
dc.subject.keywordErosion rateseng
dc.subject.keywordEstuarine systemseng
dc.subject.keywordEstuarine zoneseng
dc.subject.keywordHoloceneseng
dc.subject.keywordHydrologic alterationeng
dc.subject.keywordHydrologic changeseng
dc.subject.keywordLand degradationeng
dc.subject.keywordMorphological changeseng
dc.subject.keywordMorphological processeng
dc.subject.keywordNational parkseng
dc.subject.keywordOverbank floweng
dc.subject.keywordPeat soilseng
dc.subject.keywordRelative sea leveleng
dc.subject.keywordSediment loadeng
dc.subject.keywordSediment yieldseng
dc.subject.keywordSmall streamseng
dc.subject.keywordSouth Americaeng
dc.subject.keywordSurf zoneseng
dc.subject.keywordTidal flateng
dc.subject.keywordWater diversionseng
dc.subject.keywordAnoxic sedimentseng
dc.subject.keywordCatchmentseng
dc.subject.keywordDeforestationeng
dc.subject.keywordErosioneng
dc.subject.keywordEstuarieseng
dc.subject.keywordFlood controleng
dc.subject.keywordRiver diversioneng
dc.subject.keywordSedimentologyeng
dc.subject.keywordSoilseng
dc.subject.keywordWater supplyeng
dc.subject.keywordRiverseng
dc.subject.keywordcrevasseeng
dc.subject.keyworddefoliationeng
dc.subject.keyworddeforestationeng
dc.subject.keyworddeltaeng
dc.subject.keyworddrainage basineng
dc.subject.keywordenvironmental effecteng
dc.subject.keyworderosion rateeng
dc.subject.keywordHoloceneeng
dc.subject.keywordhuman activityeng
dc.subject.keywordland degradationeng
dc.subject.keywordlowland environmenteng
dc.subject.keywordpeat soileng
dc.subject.keywordriver dischargeeng
dc.subject.keywordsea level changeeng
dc.subject.keywordsediment yieldeng
dc.subject.keywordshorelineeng
dc.subject.keywordtidal flateng
dc.subject.keywordColombiaeng
dc.subject.keywordPacifieng
dc.titleHuman induced discharge diversion in a tropical delta and its environmental implications: The Patía River, Colombiaeng
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleeng
dc.typearticleeng
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioneng
dc.typepublishedVersioneng
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