Context:

Puerto López is located in the northeast of the Department of Meta, is known as the geographic center of Colombia, is located at a distance of ninety kilometers from the capital, Villavicencio; It is characterized as an area of water wealth. The Banderas pipe is part of the Meta River Basin to which 33% of the urban sewage effluents effluent, establishing that it is contaminated by sewage and garbage.

Method:

Through a mixed approach, information was collected through semi-structured interviews and surveys, processed in Atlas.ti 7 and SPSS 20 respectively, establishing relationships for the interpretation of results.

Results:

It was established that the impacts generated have not been mitigated despite the different programs determined in municipal planning; The inequality in the citizen status allows the occupation as the detriment of environmental protection zones as well as facilitates the dumping and deposit of solid waste in them.

Conclusions:

The analysis of the anthropic intervention of water bodies allows to establish responsibilities in the negative impacts of the area as well as to detail improvement actions for their recovery according to the territory.