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In the News (Thu 10 Dec 09)

  
  4. CASE STUDY: ECUADOR
The rate of pesticide poisoning in Carchi is among the highest recorded anywhere in the world.
Among the rural population, the annual number of deaths resulting from pesticide exposure is 4 per every 10 000 citizens, with the number of nonlethal poisonings observed in a clinical setting also standing at 4 per 10 000.
In the Carchi case, scientists have also speculated that the high rate of suicide may be related to the mood-altering effects of pesticide exposure.
www.idrc.ca /en/ev-29128-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html   (2167 words)

  
 Carchi Ecuador - Ministry of Tourism, Ecuador
Carchi, home to towering mountains such as Volcano Chiles (4,768 m) and an alpine climate with an average temperature of 12 degrees centigrade, is Ecuador’s northernmost province.
Carchi also has a domestic airport with connecting flights to various cities throughout Ecuador and a handful of flights to southern Colombia.
Another of Carchi’s attractions is a group of hot springs whose waters rise from Volcano Chiles and are said to have strong medicinal properties.
www.vivecuador.com /html2/eng/carchi_en.htm   (681 words)

  
 Tourism in the province of Carchi Ecuador CODESO
La provincia del Carchi tiene 170.000 habitantes, 80.000 urbanos y 90.000 rurales.
Carchi tiene una superficie de 3.600 kilómetros quadrados divididos en 6 cantones.
Carchi fue declarada provincia el 19 de noviebre 1880.
www.codeso.com /TurismoCarchiE.html   (88 words)

  
 Gobierno Provincial del Carchi
In the primary sector an average of 4,3 classrooms exists for School and 20 pupils for classroom and for teacher, this it is due to the fact that a good number of schools exists unidocentes with one or two classrooms where all the grades work students, this happens especially in the rural sector.
The commerce of the Carchi is sustained principally in frontier commerce with the department of Nariño of Colombia.
The communication is the fundamental base of the development of the peoples, it is this reason for which as it has gone growing and modernizing the province, also different mass media have been appearing social that has contributed to the orientation and education of the carchenses in topics of local, national interest and international.
www.carchi.gov.ec /english/cifras.php   (1235 words)

  
 Fruit Trees Instead of Potatoes: A Sustainable Community-Based Innovation for Conserving the Guandera Cloud Forest in ...
In the province of Carchi in northern Ecuador, a unique collaboration between Guandera, a non-profit cloud forest reserve, and "Union y Trabajo," a local agricultural cooperative, has inspired community-wide innovation in land use leading to sustainable farming practices that leave nearby forest intact.
After three plantings it is generally necessary to rotate land into dairy pasture for several years and the most depleted land is bought by large dairy operations for perpetual pasture.
Thus, small farmers in Carchi have been continually cutting primary forest to open new fields and thereby sustain their potato income.
srdis.ciesin.org /cases/ecuador-007.html   (2660 words)

  
 NEW IDEAS FOR RAPID TRANSIT: A way to roll over gridlock? | ajc.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Carchi, 36, catches the Los Angeles Metro's Orange Line in the sprawling San Fernando Valley, some 20 miles from his office in downtown L.A. Sleek, metallic-colored vehicles arrive every few minutes during rush hour, rolling along an abandoned freight rail corridor.
Swinson stressed that she isn't opposed to all BRT projects but believes buses don't fit the concept of the Beltline, which travels through dozens of Intown neighborhoods and is to be lined with parks and trails.
Carchi, a business systems analyst, likes the simplicity of the Orange Line —- a single east-west line with only 13 stops.
www.ajc.com /metro/content/printedition/2006/11/26/metbrt1126a.html   (2118 words)

  
 Provincia de Carchi: Ecuador Galapagos Ecuador Ecuaworld
Un cuadrante, un espacio de barro, similar al pueblo de Israel, corresponde a la Provincia del Carchi, pero con sus propios caracteres climáticos de flora y de fauna que imprimen su fuerza telúrica en el ciudadano que habita en esta zona, terreno propicio para la cultura y para el arte en sus diversas manifestaciones.
Parques, iglesias que se incendian al iniciar la noche con focos y grito de campanas, tribunas al aire libre dispuestas siempre a escuchar el grito universal de la palabra; ésto y mucho más hacen de Tulcán una capital cultural.
El núcleo de Carchi de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana y el Grupo Caminos de Tulcán, injertados al labio mayor de un grupo de poetas, hacen de este barrio la tierra buena.
www.ecuaworld.com.ec /carchi.htm   (1087 words)

  
 F: Fincas piloto Carchi-Imbabura
El área del proyecto está localizada en nueve parroquias de Carchi y seis parroquias de Imbabura, y comprende 7 600 hectáreas correspondientes a 150 fincas de tamaño entre 20 y 200 hectáreas.
Las provincias de Carchi e Imbabura son productoras de una gama amplia de cultivos entre los que sobresalen la papa, el maíz, suave, la caña de azúcar y el plátano.
La producción agrícola de Carchi e Imbabura es canalizada al consumidor a través de cuatro agentes: la empresa privada integrada por intermediarios comerciales.
www.oas.org /dsd/publications/Unit/oea60s/ch16.htm   (1845 words)

  
 Capítulo 1. Diagnostico de la región I
Las provincias de Carchi e Imbabura, ubicadas en la sierra tienen mayor densidad demográfica, con 27.4 y 38.2 habitantes por kilómetro cuadrado respectivamente, frente a Esmeraldas, que tiene sólo 11.4 habitantes por kilómetro cuadrado y extensas áreas casi despobladas.
La red vial de las provincias de Carchi e Imbabura, al igual que la de la mayoría de la zona interandina del país es producto en gran parte del acondicionamiento que han sufrido las antiguas rutas de herradura, tránsito de carreteras y tránsito peatonal.
Se ubica en la provincia de Carchi y está destinado a regar 650 hectáreas cuya cota media es de 1 700 metros; tiene clima similar al de Ambuquí.
www.oas.org /dsd/publications/Unit/oea60s/ch03a.htm   (5617 words)

  
 Carchi
Human settlement on the slopes of Carchi is both rapid and currently uncontrollable.
In order to promote more local attention to the problems in the watershed, specifically with sustainable development and natural resource management, an informal consortium was created in 1994 between a number of national and international institutions working in the watershed.
Today, the Carchi Consortium plays an important role in the apprenticeship of communities and the exchange of information among institutions involved in the management of the watershed.
www.ires.ubc.ca /projects/Carchi/htmlenglish/introen.htm   (918 words)

  
 Ecuador - Carchi
La provincia de Carchi está ubicada al extremo norte del país, en las Hoyas del Carchi y del Chota.
En el sector minero, Carchi cuenta con yacimientos de cal distribuidos en Bolívar, La Paz, San Isidro y Rumichaca; de azufre, localizados entre San Gabriel y El Angel, así como en el sitio denominado Aguas Hediondas.
Los sitios más atractivos en la provincia del Carchi, son: el cementerio, famoso por las esculturas elaboradas en ciprés por lo que se le ha dado el nombre de "La escultura en verde".
www.cncultura.gov.ec /cultura/HTML/CARCHI.HTM   (536 words)

  
 ExploRed - ECUADOR online -Carchi
El Carchi es una provincia papera y ocupa uno de los primeros lugares en la producción nacional de este tubérculo.
Expertos nacionales y extranjeros han establecido que las mesetas del Carchi constituyen zonas óptimas para la crianza de ganado, tanto de leche como de carne.
La provincia del Carchi cuenta con 148 kilómetros de carretera asfaltada (Panamericana Norte) y cientos de kilómetros de una red secundaria construida por el Consejo Provincial.
www.explored.com.ec /ecuador/continue/carchi3.htm   (496 words)

  
 Publications
This report is aimed at understanding the factors that influence the involvement of mestizo women in irrigated agriculture in two irrigation canals in the province of Carchi, Ecuador.
Most of the existing networks were built between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the rich landowners were able to make the native labor force dig and maintain canals that were regularly destroyed by bad weather, overflows, and earthquakes.
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially in the area of Carchi, land was gradually partitioned due to social movements, thus causing changes in the use of water.
www.iwmi.cgiar.org /pubs/Pub031/body.htm   (9040 words)

  
 Andes River Basin
It is located in Carchi Province, with a total area of 292 km 2 (300 km² taking into account the influence area) between 0 ° 30' and 0 ° 45' N and 78 ° 05'and 77 ° W (Arellano et al., 2000).
The uneven distribution of precipitation is one of the main problems in the area, creating water scarcity problems in the dry season (Consorcio Carchi, 1998).
Human settlement on the slopes of Carchi is both rapid and uncontrolled.
www.condesan.org /Andean/angel.htm   (706 words)

  
 Ecuador provinces, Azuay, Bolivar, Cañar, Carchi and Cotopaxi
Ecuador provinces, Azuay, Bolivar, Cañar, Carchi and Cotopaxi
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Carchi is a province in far north of the country on the border with Columbia.
www.ecuadors.org /provinces.htm   (347 words)

  
 Diario La Opinión
Las deportaciones de trabajadoras sexuales colombianas preocupa a las autoridades del Carchi.
Iván Sandoval, procurador de la Niñez y la Adolescencia en Carchi, comentó que  no se han presentado casos de menores de edad colombianas involucradas en trabajos sexuales.
Por su parte, Omar Guerrón, presidente de los transportistas pesados del Carchi, admite que  en ocasiones los agremiados pueden ser engañados por trabajadoras sexuales.
www.diariopinion.com /nacional/verArticulo.php?id=18999   (221 words)

  
 Diario La Opinión
La erupción del volcán Galeras, que puso en alerta roja al departamento de Nariño, en Colombia, inquieta en Carchi.
Gerardo Dorado, cónsul de Colombia en Carchi, explicó que las recomendaciones que se ha hecho en su país son las adecuadas.
Sin embargo, anticipó que en caso de necesitar apoyo del Ecuador para recibir a las personas se hará el pedido al Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores.
www.diariopinion.com /nacional/verArticulo.php?id=16419   (178 words)

  
 PLAN COLOMBIA AND THE EFFECTS IN NORTHERN ECUADOR
On countless occasions, the editors of the newspaper La Hora of Carchi echoed the population in requesting the termination of the agreement permitting the use of the Manta military base because it is implicating Ecuador in the Colombian conflict.
On September 17, an account in the newspaper La Hora of Carchi affirmed that from his place of hiding, a paramilitary confessed to the existence of paramilitaries in Ecuador and activities of this group on Ecuadorian territory, including assassinations, massacres and drug trafficking.
In San Gabriel, which is part of the canton of Montufar (northern Carchi), permanent extortion of cattle raisers by armed groups, otherwise know as “ticketing”, is an open secret among the population.
www.globalaware.org /Artlicles_eng/oipaz.html   (4709 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ibarra
Diocese in Southern Ecuador, suffragan of Quito, created by Pius IX, 29 December, 1862, out of the provinces of Carchi and Imbabura, previously within the Archdiocese of Quito.
miles, with a Catholic population of 104,000, including 36,000 in the province of Carchi (Tulcan, the capital, alone comprising 5000), and 68,000 in the province of Imbabura (Ibarra, the capital and seat of the diocese, numbering 5600).
The 28 parishes of the diocese are divided among 8 deaneries (vicariatos foraneos): Tulcan, S. Gabriel and Mira, in the province of Carchi; Otavalo, Cotacachi, Urcuqui, Hatuntaqui, and Ibarra (foraneo central), in the province of Imbabura.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07613c.htm   (542 words)

  
 Carchi Region Map: Bolivar — Tulcan | Ecuador Google Satellite Maps
You are in Carchi (Ecuador), administrative region of level 1.
If you would like to recommend this Carchi map page to a friend, or if you just want to send yourself a reminder, here is the easy way to do it.
Expedia is the long-standing web leader in online delivery of everything you need for researching, planning, and purchasing a whole trip in Carchi.
www.maplandia.com /ecuador/carchi   (590 words)

  
 CORSORCIO CARCHI - ECOREGION RIO EL ANGEL
La cuenca se encuentra ubicada administrativamente en la Provincia de Carchi, específicamente, dentro de los límites de los Cantones Espejo, Mira y Bolívar.
Con anterioridad a la actuación de Consorcio Carchi, otras ONGs habían estimulado la formación de una pequeña quesería en la zona de La Libertad (Cantón Espejo) en la zona media-húmeda.
El Consorcio Carchi firmó un Convenio de Colaboración con CFN para desarrollar un proyecto piloto de estímulo a la formación de microempresas agropecuarias destinadas principalmente a la zona baja, para estimular la producción de algunos productos de alta rentabilidad dirigidos a mercados especiales y a la exportación.
www.condesan.org /bgris/ecuador/ecuador3.htm   (10610 words)

  
 BBC World Service | Dying to Make a Living
But the risks involved are not often apparent by the way they are casually bought, sold and applied.
The highest recorded rate of poisoning is in Carchi in northern Ecuador, a region with fertile soils and a generous climate which produces good crops of potatoes.
Their families are just as much at risk; lots of small children have become seriously ill or died as result of accidental poisoning.
www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/specials/1646_dying/index.shtml   (178 words)

  
 Carchi - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Al norte, los ríos Carchi y San Juan le sirven de frontera con Colombia, al sur limita con la provincia de Imbabura, al este con la provincia de Sucumbíos, y a occidente con la de Esmeraldas.
El relieve se muestra en forma de altas tierras o altiplanos y una gran depresión con dos hoyas, que forman un amplio valle en el sureste de la provincia y que se continua por tierras colombianas.
Carchi es una rica zona arqueológica, en la que son muy peculiares unos tipos de yacimientos funerarios bajo el suelo de las cabañas.
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carchi   (401 words)

  
 Pseudocentrum in Peru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
bursarium in the provinces of Carchi and Napo.
Two specimens at Aarhus and one collection at Kew extend the documented range of this species in Ecuador to include the provinces of Carchi, Napo, and Tungurahua.
It’s worth noting here that both species of Pseudocentrum were discovered in flower and growing together in Carchi and Napo.
www.rbgkew.org.uk /herbarium/orchid/ORN37/pseudo.htm   (223 words)

  
 Barnens Regnskog, Children's Rainforest of Sweden, undervisning om regnskog
Guandera is a biological reserve in the Carchi province in northern Ecuador, protecting 1000 ha of páramo de frailejones and evergreen high-mountain forest (of which only 2-4 % remains in the whole country).
Guandera är ett biologiskt reservat, beläget i Carchi provinsen i norra Ecuador, som skyddar 1000 hektar bergsregnskog och “páramo de frailejones”.
This type basically only exists in the Carchi province (tot 25 000 ha) and has its name from the plant with the same name, fig 2.
www.barnens-regnskog.net /guandera/index.html   (2071 words)

  
 Satelitní mapa oblasti Carchi: Bolivar — Tulcan | Ekvádor
Carchi a okolní regiony — podrobné satelitní snímky
Nyní se nacházíte v oblasti Carchi (Ekvádor), administrativného regionu úrovně 1.
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www.maplandia.cz /ekvador/carchi   (482 words)

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