Mapocho

This week i’m going to write about Santiago. For me the most important characteristic of the city is the Mapocho River, who born in the andes mountain range and descend accrossing a lot of municipalities, Lo Barnechea, Las Condes, Providencia, Santiago, Independencia, Recoleta, Renca and others. In the origin the river is not contaminate, and people can use the water for irrigate their crops and for drink and cook. Although you believe it or not in the mountain mapocho river water is clean, clear and pure, the problem is when the river falls and it approach the city, because humans interfere the watercourse and change his configuration affecting all the species who lives around this ecosystem. The river absorb the water of the San Carlos Canal, extremely polluted by sweep waste organic and inorganic produced by the human. It's appear that the Mapocho is the exit of many problems who affects the Santiago’s society and the persons who didn’t wants to continue with their lives, throws himself into the river, which doesn’t have a place or a house to life, lives in the brook and it's one of favourite places of thieves, in the bridges that across every day are a lot of attacks. But the fault is not of the river, it was here before us, gives us the life and we give him the death, we cram it and interrupt it development.  


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