SIG y realidad: Inundaciones en As Pontes de García Rodríguez (A Coruña)

Abstract

Floods are the natural hazard with major social and economic impact. The anthropic development of Eume river´s basin makes important to control the factors that contribute to flooding the area. For this project, the role of the geographic information systems is fundamental, because, together with the hydrological rational method, they allow to estimate the extent of these for further planning with which minimize the economic and human losses that involve. For this, it had developed mapping floodplains in the area of As Pontes de García Rodríguez, vulnerable sector to the flooding of the Eume River, establishing a series of measures to minimize possible damage. Delimiting of flood areas has been carried out by combining statistical, hydrological and geomorphological methods, with some automated project procedures using geographic information systems (GIS)