Introducción: El Parque Nacional Chirripó ha tenido cambios climáticos definidos por su ubicación y por características geológicas, geomorfológicas, ecológicas y edáficas. Objetivo: Identificar los factores que han modulado ...

En países tropicales como Costa Rica, la incidencia de procesos de ladera e inundaciones están condicionados por las lluvias extraordinarias, el tipo de sustrato y su grado de meteorización, la sismicidad, la morfología ...

The Aneto, located on the Maladeta Massif (Central Pyrenees), is the largest glacier of the Pyrenees. The glacier is 675m long, occupies an area of 48.64 ha and has a maximum altitude of 3269m. In this study, we present a ...

Abstract: Landslides are generated by natural causes and by human action, causing various geomorphological changes as well as physical and socioeconomic loss of the environment and human life. The study, characterization ...

Tropical and subtropical forests cover only 7 % of the Earth’s land surface. Yet, they host nearly half of global tree density with a high species number (~40,000 species), store up to 25 % of global terrestrial carbon and ...

San Vito es el distrito primero del cantón de Coto Brus y en el mismo se presentan los mayores problemas medioambientales como son la presencia de un tajo, varios beneficios de café, el botadero municipal, el hospital y ...

The Limón earthquake was one of the biggest disasters ever recorded in Costa Rica and Panama. This event had a magnitude of 7.7 Mw, occurred on April 22 of 1991 and had its epicenter at the coordinates 9.685 N and -83.073 ...

Landslides are a common natural hazard in Costa Rica, recurrently triggered by seismicity and extraordinary rainfall. Here, we investigate the coalescence of both processes and their ability to trigger massive landslides ...

During the last decade, climate change has generated extreme rainfall events triggering flash floods in short periods worldwide. The delimitation of flood zones by detailed mapping generally makes it possible to avoid ...

Globally, most active tropical glacial landscapes are found at elevations above 4000 m. Nonetheless, the presence of paleoglacial landforms in low latitudes, especially those formed during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), ...