The Mining Exploitation And The Landscape Impacts On The Town Of Villa Nueva, Guatemala; Challenges And Realities

Abstract

The goal of the investigation was to expose the landscape problem of mining in the
municipality of Villa Nueva, department of Guatemala; and how these processes are
treated from different perspectives, both legal and environmental. The research carried out was raised under a qualitative approach, the emphasis is placed on the importance of the historical development of mining and on the impacts, it has on the
landscape as a social, natural, environmental, visual and cultural asset to a territory. The municipality has regulations at territorial level, this is essential for full management of landscape in the absence of specific landscape legislation for the Republic
of Guatemala. The land use plan is oriented towards ecological, landscape and environmental
conservation, in order to become a municipality focused on sustainable
development. The result of the analysis of the problems caused by mining, present
challenges, and opportunities for the landscape of the town, such as: environmental and mining control, monitoring of urbanizations in areas of mining and high disaster risk; protection of hydrographic basins and the creation of the division in charge of the landscape.