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| Biosphere Reserve Information | ||||
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ALTO GOLFO DE CALIFORNIA |
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| General Description | The biosphere reserve comprises the ‘Pinacate’ area, the ‘Gran Desierto del Altar’ and the ‘Bahía of Adair’ in the Gulf of California’s border. It is located in the Sonora State in the extreme northeastern Mexico. Geological volcanic formations with craters, dunes, oasis and beaches, and the diversity of plants associations determine its special landscape. In the transition and buffer areas, 129,516 (1990) inhabitants live in ‘ejidos’ or communal properties, mainly engaged in agriculture, forestry, mineral extractions and cattle raising located mainly in the coastal areas. One of the most important economic activities in the transition areas is the existence of international enterprises ‘maquiladoras’, in San Rio Colorado, which engage 5,880 people living in the urban villages. The same economic model is to be implemented in Sonoyta’s village as an ‘Industrial Park’. This ‘industrial development’ model has affected the construction of local alternatives for sustainable practices in the reserve. Another of the principal constraints for a management plan according to the biosphere reserve model is the lack of water supply for the population and the degradation of natural resources (including over-exploitation of marine species in the Gulf of California and Puerto Peñasco). Handicraft and tourism have been declining. The principal goal of the biosphere reserve is to protect the core areas, ‘Sierra el Pinacate y Bahía Adair’ and create sustainable development alternatives compatible with desert ecosystems for local inhabitants, regulate extraction activities and facilitate scientific research. | |||
| Major ecosystem type | Warm deserts and semi-deserts including coastal/marine component; subtropical sea and river delta | |||
| Major habitats & land cover types | Shallow coastal water of the upper Gulf of California; halophylous vegetation; coastal and Colorado River Delta wetlands; Gran Desierto dunes; shrub of arid land and Delta’s islands; granite mountain range; agroecosystems | |||
| Location | 31°01' to 32°22'N; 112°59' to 115°13'W | |||
| Area (hectares) | ||||
| Total | 1,649,312 | |||
| Core area(s) | 434,285 | |||
| Buffer zone(s) | 1,215,027 | |||
| Transition area(s) when given | ||||
| Altitude (metres above sea level) | -50 to +1,290 | |||
| Year designated | 1993, extension 1995 | |||
| Administrative authorities | Comisión Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas (CONANP) Secretaría de Medio Ambiente, Recursos Naturales y Pesca (SEMARNAP) Camino al Ajusco 200, 3er piso, Jardines en la Montaña, Tlalpan, C.P. 14210, México, D.F. Tel: (653) 536 37 57, (653) 536 81 31 Fax: (653) 536 37 57 E-mail: agolfo@conanp.gob.mx; delta2@telnor.net; jcampoy@conanp.gob.mx | |||
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| Brief description |
Oceanographic studies Marine and freshwater fisheries population monitoring Surface and underground hydrologic studies Wetland birds population monitoring and habitat management Endangered species conservation biology Wildlife inventory and evaluation research Cultural anthropological research Paleontology and natural resources economic studies Desert pupfish and riparian habitats monitoring and restoring program Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) monitoring Flat tailed horned lizard (Phrynosoma mcallii) monitoring program Climate variables monitoring program Lesser long nose bat monitoring program |
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| Specific variables... | ||||
| Abiotic | Climate, geology, habitat, hydrology, monitoring/methodologies, physical oceanography/oceans. | |||
| Biodiversity | Birds, coastal/marine, conservation, fishes, freshwater/inland water, mammals, methodologies, natural resources, population genetics/population dynamics, rare/endangered/threatened species, reptiles, restoration/rehabilitation/redevelopment, species inventorying/inventory, wetlands, wildlife. | |||
| Socio-economic | Anthropological studies/Anthropology, cultural aspects, economic studies, fishery/fisheries. | |||
| Integrated monitoring | Management issues. | |||
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| Contact address |
Federico Godínez Leal Reserva de Biosfera 'El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar' Av. Aquiles Serdán No. 180, entre Rosales y Pino Suárez, Planta Alta, Edif. correos. Col. Centro 83000 Hermosillo, Sonora Mexico |
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| Telephone | (52.662) 217 01 73 | |||
| Fax | (52.662) 217 01 73 | |||
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pinacate@conanp.gob.mx fgodinez@conanp.gob.mx |
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| Contact address |
José Campoy Favela Reserva de Biosfera 'Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Río Colorado' Av. Jalisco 903 entre calle 9 y 10, Col. Sonora 83404 San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora Mexico |
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| Telephone | (52.653) 536 37 57 | |||
| Fax | (52.653) 536 37 57 | |||
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agolfo@conanp.gob.mx jcampoy@conanp.gob.mx |
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| Web site | www.conanp.gob.mx | |||
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| Last updated: 9/18/2007 |
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