The Lagares River, Vigo’s main watercourse, maintains a great diversity of birds, riverside vegetation and even an old salting operation.

The Lagares River, Vigo’s main watercourse, maintains a great diversity of birds, riverside vegetation and even an old salting operation.

This project proposes the control and monitoring of the quality of the river’s waters, through the development of a GIS computer tool, which allows its environmental characterization and present and future monitoring. The tool must also collect all the data on the current state of the riverbed, industries in the area, vegetation and animal species, so that any alteration detected is assigned to a delimited origin, allowing corrective action in the shortest possible time.

The specific actions planned are the following:

• Collection and collection of data from all the detailed environmental information of the course of the Lagares River.
• Characterization of the environmental status of the river.
• Determination of the department in charge of the management of the GIS.
• Cartographic development of the river course and its banks (adaptation of existing cartography).
• Creation of a database with all environmental aspects.
• Data entry into the database (sorting, sorting, and filtering of data).
• Implementation of GIS (incorporation of the different functions that the GIS application will incorporate).
• Dissemination and publicity of the project.
• Celebration of information days on the actions in the Lagares River.