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Programa de fortalecimiento de la resiliencia ante el riesgo de desastres en el Corredor Seco Centroamericano

Year of publication 2015

Pages 10p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Category Brochure

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Una de las áreas más afectada por los eventos extremos, en particular geoclimáticos, es el Corredor Seco. El término Corredor Seco, aunque apunte a un fenómeno climático, tiene una base ecológica y define a un grupo de ecosistemas que se combinan en la ecorregión del bosque tropical seco de Centroamérica en la vertiente pacífica, abarcando gran parte de la región central pre-montaña de El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guanacaste en Costa Rica y el Arco Seco de Panamá. Los riesgos cli máticos en el Corredor Seco son representados principalmente por períodos recurrentes de sequía junto con excesos de lluvias e inundaciones severas que afectan a la producción agrícola, con mayor intensidad en las áreas degradadas.

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