Demarcation of Public Zone of Estuary/Mangrove Sector in Puerto JiménezDelimitación de zona pública de un sector de estero/manglar de Puerto

8905, the National Geographic Institute is established as a dependency of the National Registry, and that the Administrative Board of the National Registry shall administer the Institute's budget, enter into the contracts and agreements necessary for the exercise of its functions. Likewise, it establishes that the National Geographic Institute shall be the scientific and technical body governing national cartography, responsible for the execution of the Official Base Map and the Basic Geographic Description of the Republic of Costa Rica, as well as the studies, investigations, or work, and the development of national policies of a cartographic, geographic, geodetic, geophysical, or similar nature related to said works, with the purpose of supporting planning processes.

59, constitutes it permanently and on behalf of the State, as the official authority in geodetic matters and in the spatial representation of the geography of the Republic, its authority extending to activities of any kind originating from the tasks entrusted to it.

59, Article 62 of the Regulation to Law No. 6043 recognizes the competence of the National Geographic Institute for the delimitation of the public zone of the Maritime Terrestrial Zone, and its officialization through publication in the Official Gazette La Gaceta, while Article 63 of the same Regulation states that: "The National Geographic Institute shall publish a notice in the Official Gazette, for each portion of the maritime-terrestrial zone in which it has demarcated the public zone."

36642-MP-MOPTMINAET, "Specifications Regulation for the Delimitation of the Public Zone of the Maritime Terrestrial Zone," it is established according to Article 18 that for the delimitation of the public zone of the Maritime Terrestrial Zone, the IGN may use two execution methodologies, as indicated in Articles 19 and 20, corresponding to the delimitation of the public zone of the Maritime Terrestrial Zone through the placement of landmarks (mojones) and/or through georeferenced digital delimitation, in order to expedite delimitations and provide greater technical certainty to interested parties.

33797-MJ-MOPT, which among other aspects determines the National Geodetic Network CR05 Horizontal Reference and its associated cartographic projection CRTM05 as the official system to which the coordinates of all geodetic, cartographic, and cadastral works executed in our country must be referenced, specifically stating in Article 11 that: "The National Geodetic Network CR05 Horizontal Reference and the CRTM05 cartographic projection system shall constitute the sole official coordinate system for the Republic of Costa Rica, from which all cartographic and geodetic surveys and activities carried out within the National Territory by any public agency, person, or private entity, national or foreign, must be referenced."; while Article 7 indicates that "As cartographic data is produced in the new CRTM05 cartographic projection system, the National Geographic Institute shall publish, by appropriate means, that information which has been made official."

40962-MJP, "Update of the Official Horizontal Reference Geodetic System for Costa Rica," declares that: "The official horizontal reference geodetic system for Costa Rica, named CR05 and materialized through the National Geodetic Network, changes its acronym to CRSIRGAS, as the official horizontal reference system for the Republic of Costa Rica.", while "The CRTM05 cartographic projection system shall continue to be the official one for the cartographic representation of the continental national territory." For its part, Article 12 of the cited decree reinforces the application of the CRTM05 cartographic projection as the official national coordinate system to which they must be referenced in the continental territory of our country, by stating that "...all cartographic and geodetic surveys and activities carried out within the national territory by any public agency, person, or private entity, national or foreign, that undertake or contract geodetic and cartographic works, contributing to avoid public expenditure and obtaining, moreover, reliable, uniform, and comparable geographic information that is of general utility and supports decision-making at the different levels of the State."

7841-P, "Regulation to Law No. 6043 on the Maritime Terrestrial Zone", b) Executive Decree No. 33797-MJ-MOPT, "Declares CR05 and its associated CRTM05 cartographic projection as the official horizontal datum for Costa Rica", c) Executive Decree No. 40962-MJP, "Update of the Official Horizontal Reference Geodetic System for Costa Rica"; and d) Executive Decree No. 36642-MP-MOPT-MINAET, "Specifications Regulation for the Delimitation of the Public Zone of the Maritime Terrestrial Zone".

10.-That Article 16 of the Forest Law (Ley Forestal), Law No. 7575 of February 13, 1996, establishes that the Ministry of Environment and Energy shall delimit on the ground the boundaries of the areas that constitute the State's Natural Heritage.

11.-The National Geographic Institute, together with the Osa Conservation Area, used the "Georeferenced Digital Delimitation" methodology to delimit the public zone of the Maritime Terrestrial Zone in a sector of estuary/mangrove in Puerto Jiménez in district 02 Puerto Jiménez, canton 07 Golfito; province 06 Puntarenas, all in accordance with procedures carried out by MINAE, the Judicial Branch, and the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, before the National Geographic Institute.

12.-That the delimitation carried out has internal technical endorsement in accordance with official document No. DIG-TOT-0260-2019 of July 24, 2019, issued by the Official Boundaries Sub-process of the Topographic Department and Territory Observation of the National Geographic Institute.

13.-That the delimitation carried out by the Osa Conservation Area of the National System of Conservation Areas of MINAE for the demarcation of the public zone in the mangrove ecosystem sector was carried out in accordance with official documents SINAC-ACOSA-D-369-2019 dated July 19, 2019, SINAC-ACOSA-POT-PNE-2019 dated May 21, 2019, SINAC-ACOSA-PNE-AD-102-2019, dated March 29, 2019, SINAC-ACOSA-D-163-2019 dated April 9, 2019, and official document SINAC-ACOSA-DRFVS-SRPIT-031-2019 dated April 27, 2019.

14.-That Article 140 of Law No. 6227, the General Public Administration Act, states that "the administrative act shall produce its effect after being communicated to the administered party, except if it grants only rights, in which case it shall produce it from the moment it is adopted," a provision that must necessarily be related to Article 240 of the same normative body, which defines the suitable instrument for communicating acts of a generic nature by stating that: "General acts shall be communicated by publication, and specific acts by notification." 15.-This delimitation corresponds to a sector of the official demarcation of the estuary/mangrove areas of Puerto Jiménez; based on Law No. 6043 on the Maritime Terrestrial Zone, in its Article 11, which indicates that estuaries/mangroves are part of the public zone of State property. The delimitation was carried out using precision unmanned positioning equipment, in addition to site visits, soil sample analysis, historical studies of the existence of estuaries/mangroves in the sector, and topographic measurement equipment during the months of February and March 2019. Furthermore, within this ecosystem there is a road connecting the community of Puerto Jiménez, which is located on the estuary/mangrove ecosystem; this being supported by Article 11 of the Regulation to Law No. 6043.

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Asimismo, se establece que el Instituto Geográfico Nacional será la dependencia científica y técnica rectora de la cartografía nacional, destinada a la ejecución del Mapa básico oficial y la Descripción básica geográfica de la República de Costa Rica y a los estudios, las investigaciones o labores y el desarrollo de políticas nacionales de carácter cartográfico, geográfico, geodésico, geofísico y de índole similar que tenga relación con dichas obras, con el fin de apoyar los procesos de planificación.

"El Instituto Geográfico Nacional deberá publicar aviso en el Diario Oficial, de cada porción de la zona marítimo-terrestre en que haya demarcado la zona pública".

• b)el Decreto Ejecutivo N° 33797-MJ-MOPT "Declara como datum horizontal oficial para Costa Rica, el CR05, y su proyección cartográfica asociada, CRTM05", c) el Decreto Ejecutivo N° 40962-MJP "Actualización del Sistema Geodésico de Referencia Horizontal Oficial para Costa Rica"; y d) el Decreto Ejecutivo N° 36642-MP-MOPT-MINAET "Reglamento de Especificaciones para la Delimitación de la zona pública de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre".

10.-Que el artículo 16° de la Ley Forestal, Ley N° 7575 del 13 de febrero de 1996, establece que el Ministerio del Ambiente y Energía delimitará en el terreno los linderos de las áreas que conforman el Patrimonio Natural del Estado.

11.-El Instituto Geográfico Nacional junto con el Área de Conservación Osa, utilizó la metodología de "Delimitación Digital Georreferenciada" para delimitar la zona pública de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre en un sector de estero/manglar en Puerto Jiménez en el distrito 02 Puerto Jiménez, cantón 07 Golfito; provincia 06 Puntarenas, esto conforme diligencias realizadas por MINAE, Poder Judicial, y Procuraduría General de la República, ante el Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

12.-Que la delimitación realizada cuenta con aval técnico interno conforme al oficio N° DIG-TOT-0260-2019 del 24 de julio de 2019, emitido por el Subproceso de Límites Oficiales del Departamento Topográfico y Observación del Territorio del Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

13.-Que la delimitación realizada por el Área de Conservación Osa del Sistema de Áreas de Conservación del MINAE para la demarcación de la zona pública en el sector de ecosistema de manglar se realizó de acuerdo con los oficios SINAC-ACOSA-D-369-2019 de fecha 19 de julio 2019, SINAC-ACOSA-POT-PNE-2019 del 21 de mayo de 2019. SINAC-ACOSA-PNE-AD-102-2019, de fecha 29 de marzo de 2019, SINAC-ACOSA-D-163-2019 de fecha 09 de abril de 2019. y el oficio SINAC-ACOSA-DRFVS-SRPIT- 031-2019 del 27 de abril del 2019.

14.-Que el artículo 140 de la Ley N° 6227 General de la Administración Pública señala que "el acto administrativo producirá su efecto después de comunicado al administrado, excepto si le concede únicamente derechos, en cuyo caso lo producirá desde que se adopte", disposición que necesariamente debe relacionarse con el numeral 204) del mismo cuerpo normativo, mismo que define el instrumento idóneo para comunicar actos de naturaleza genérica al señalar que: "Se comunicaran por publicación los actos generales y por notificación, los concretos".

15.-Esta delimitación corresponde a un sector de la demarcación oficial de las áreas del estero/manglar de Puerto Jiménez; con base en la Ley N° 6043 de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre en su artículo 11 en el cual se indica que los esteros/ manglares son parte de la zona pública de los bienes del Estado. La delimitación se llevó a cabo con equipo de posicionamiento de precisión no tripulado además de visitas al sitio, análisis de muestras de suelo, estudios históricos de la existencia de esteros/manglares en el sector y equipos de medición topográfica durante los meses de febrero y marzo de 2019. Además, dentro de este ecosistema se encuentra una calle que une la comunidad de Puerto Jiménez, esta se ubica sobre el ecosistema del estero/manglar; siendo esto respaldado por el artículo 11 del Reglamento de la Ley N° 6043.

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