WEEK 8 - COMPULSORY EXERCISE: ECOSYSTEMS SERVICES
FC-02x Livable Future Cities (1st Run) - Compulsory Exercise 4
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**Food:** in my town has fertile land, but there are no much crops there, used to be a large area of orange groves, there are only few fields for this use. **Raw materials:** there are some grounds for exploration, exploitation and utilization of non-metallic minerals, which are used for the execution of projects and works throughout the national territory; sale of building materials, sand, crushed stone, chippings, pea gravel, and any other non-metallic mineral Fresh water: The municipality has two main rivers, San Diegor and Cupira, these supply a part of the municipality, and the rest is supplied by water purification of Lake Valencia treated by “Pao Cachinche” plant, which also supplies the water to the metropolitan city in general. **b. Regulating Services** **Local climate and air quality:** Locate in a valley, it has a great vegetation, Predominate the landscape of the hills Maco-Maco, La Sanchera, Pelon, Montemayor and others, this ground has a great potential because of the type of vegetation that exist here, the view of more than 180° and in the urban area dominates the alluvial plain that extend in a north-south. ![enter image description here][1] Photo by www.worldtravelserver.com **Carbon sequestration and storage:** thanks to its large vegetation, it can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and effectively lock it away in their tissues. **c. Habitat or suppporting services** **Habitats for species:** in the mountainous area of the municipality it is common to observe mammals such as porcupine, tapir, armadillo, and a rich species of birds, is threatened by rapid urban growth. There is a botanical garden under construction, which will have a large numbers of tree species, allowing ecosystem development. ![enter image description here][2] Photo by Notitarde.com **d. Cultural services** **Recreation and mental and physical health:** Has a free public sports center called IAMDESANDI, there can develop activities such as tennis, soccer, swimming, baseball, bastketball, among others. It has a skate park and a BMX track, also several playgrounds, multiple fields and areas for exercise. ![enter image description here][3] Photo By Alcaldia de San Diego **Tourism:** One of the most representative pre-Columbian evidence of Aboriginal rock art, is drawn with chisels of mystery and eternity, in the ancient magical paintings of sandieganas rocks, hidden in the green landscapes of the old mountain La Cumaca laying on the Sierra San Esteban, under different techniques and different reasons, in the rich deposits petroglyphs are located especially in this sector, where variety of megaliths monuments are also in the Fila La Josefina, built with large stones, unworked at a time, to mean a funeral activity, sorceress, religious or simply Memorial ![enter image description here][4] Aboriginal rock art Photo By Alcaldia de San Diego [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14501606281584538.jpg [2]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14501604975540627.jpg [3]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14501600418920684.jpg [4]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1450160456823331.jpg