Urban Wetlands Law ( Spanish : Ley de Humedales Urbanos ) is a Chilean law regulating wetlands in urban areas . The law intends to provide a set of "minimal criteria for the sustainability of urban wetlands, safeguarding its ecological characteristics and their functioning, and to maintain the hydrological regime, both on surface and under the ground".
7-790: At the request of municipal government the law allows for the Ministry of the Environment to declare official urban wetlands. The Ministry of the Environment can also declare official urban wetlands by its own initiative. The law modidies the General Environmental Law (Ley 19300) and the General Law on Urbanism and Constructions (Decreto 458) as to consider either wetlands in general or urban wetlands in their provisions. As of July 2023 about hundred urban wetlands had been legally established, yet in eleven cases
14-410: A low tide does not exceed 6 m". The law consider urban wetlands those wetlands that are wholly or partially within an urban area. This Chile -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This law -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Municipalities of Chile A commune ( Spanish : comuna , IPA: [koˈmuna] )
21-421: A mayor ( alcalde ) and a group of councillors ( concejales ), for a period of four years. The communal civil service administration is known as the municipality ( municipalidad ) and is headquartered at the mayor's office ( alcaldía ). According to Chilean law, a single municipality may administer one or more communes, though currently, the only such case is the municipality of Cabo de Hornos , which administers
28-521: Is ambiguous in English, but the word is commonly used in translation for "comuna", although with some controversy among translators. A comuna is similar to a "county" in Anglo-American usage and practice, and may be more universally understood as a "municipality". Each commune or municipality is governed by a directly elected body known as a municipal council ( concejo municipal ) consisting of
35-511: Is the smallest administrative subdivision in Chile . It may contain cities , towns , villages , hamlets as well as rural areas. In highly populated areas, such as Santiago , Valparaíso and Concepción , a conurbation may be broken into several communes. In sparsely populated areas, conversely, a commune may cover a substantial rural area together with several settled areas which could range from hamlets to towns or cities. The term "commune"
42-524: The communes of Antártica and Cabo de Hornos . Chile's 346 communes are grouped into 56 provinces ( provincia , pl. provincias ), which are themselves grouped into 16 regions ( región , pl. regiones ). Traditionally, Chilean regions are listed in geographical order starting with the northernmost region, leaving the Santiago Metropolitan Region at the end. The following table lists all Chilean communes, providing
49-471: The declaration had been challenged and rejected. Also by July 2023, the declaration of 18 urban wetlands remained in dispute. Real estate developers have been the main challengers to the legal establishment of urban wetlands. The scope of the law includes " marshes , swamps , peatlands or water-covered surfaces, be these either natural or artificial, permanent or temporal, stagnant or flowing, sweet, brackish or salt, including areas of sea water, whose depth
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