Delimitation of the public zone of the Esterillos Este mangroveDelimitación de zona pública de un sector de manglar de Playa Esterillos

8905, the Instituto Geográfico Nacional is established as a dependency of the Registro Nacional and that the Junta Administrativa of the Registro Nacional shall administer the Institute's budget, sign the contracts and agreements necessary for the exercise of its functions. Likewise, it is established that the Instituto Geográfico Nacional shall be the scientific and technical dependency governing national cartography, destined for the execution of the official base Map and the basic geographic Description of the Republic of Costa Rica and for the studies, investigations or labors and the development of national policies of a cartographic, geographic, geodetic, geophysical and similar nature that are related to said works, with the purpose of supporting planning processes.

59, permanently constitutes it, in representation 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 order that originate from the works entrusted to its charge.

59, Article 62 of the Regulation to Law No. 6043 recognizes the competence of the Instituto Geográfico Nacional for the delimitation of the public zone of the Zona Marítimo Terrestre, and its officialization through publication in the Diario Oficial La Gaceta, while Article 63 of the same Regulation states that "The Instituto Geográfico Nacional must publish a notice in the Diario Oficial, for each portion of the maritime-terrestrial zone in which it has demarcated the public zone."

36642-MP-MOPTMINAET, "Regulation of Specifications for the Delimitation of the public zone of the Zona Marítimo Terrestre," it is established according to Article 18° that for the delimitation of the public zone of the Zona Marítimo Terrestre, the IGN may resort to two execution methodologies, as indicated in Articles 19 and 20, corresponding to the delimitation of the public zone of the Zona Marítimo Terrestre through the placement of boundary markers (mojones) and/or digital georeferenced delimitation, this in order to expedite delimitations and provide greater technical certainty to interested parties.

33797-MJ-MOPT, which among other aspects determines the Red Geodésica Nacional of Horizontal Reference CR05, 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 Red Geodésica Nacional of Horizontal Reference CR05 and the cartographic projection system CRTM05, shall constitute the sole official coordinate system for the Republic of Costa Rica, from which all cartographic and geodetic surveys and activities that develop in the National Territory by any public dependency, person or private entity, national or foreign, must be referenced."; while Article 7 indicates that "As cartographic data are produced in the new cartographic projection system CRTM05, the Instituto Geográfico Nacional shall publish by adequate means that information which has been made official.".

40962-MJP, "Updating of the Official Horizontal Reference Geodetic System for Costa Rica," declares that: "The official horizontal reference geodetic system for Costa Rica, denominated as CR05 and its materialization through the Red Geodésica Nacional, changes its acronym to CRSIRGAS, as the official horizontal reference system for the Republic of Costa Rica," , while " The cartographic projection system CRTM05 shall continue being the official one for the cartographic representation of the national continental territory." For its part, Article 12 of the cited decree reinforces the application of the cartographic projection CRTM05 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 that develop in the national territory by any public dependency, person or private entity, national or foreign, that undertake or contract geodetic and cartographic works, thus contributing to avoiding public expenditure and obtaining, on the other hand, reliable, uniform and comparable geographic information, which is of general utility and that supports decision-making at the different levels of the State."

7841-P, "Regulation to Law No. 6043 on the Zona Marítimo Terrestre," b) Executive Decree No. 33797-MJ-MOPT, "Declares as the official horizontal datum for Costa Rica, CR05, and its associated cartographic projection, CRTM05," c) Executive Decree No. 40962-MJP, "Updating of the Official Horizontal Reference Geodetic System for Costa Rica"; and d) Executive Decree No. 36642-MP-MOPT-MINAET, "Regulation of Specifications for the Delimitation of the public zone of the Zona Marítimo Terrestre." 10.-That Article 16° of the Ley Forestal, Law No. 7575 of February 13, 1996, establishes that the Ministry of Environment and Energy (Ministerio del Ambiente y Energía) shall delimit on the ground the boundaries of the areas that constitute the State's Natural Heritage (Patrimonio Natural del Estado).

11.-The Instituto Geográfico Nacional together with the Área de Conservación Pacífico Central, used the "Digital Georeferenced Delimitation" methodology to delimit the public zone of the Zona Marítimo Terrestre in a mangrove sector in Esterillos Este located in district 01 Parrita, canton 09 Parrita, province 06 Puntarenas, this in accordance with proceedings carried out by Mrs. Soleida Rojas Sánchez, ID No. 2-0221-0838 before the Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

12.-That the delimitation carried out has internal technical endorsement in accordance with official communication No. DIG-TOT-0264-2019 of July 30, 2019, issued by the Subproceso de Limites Oficiales of the Topographic Department and Territory Observation (Departamento Topográfico y Observación del Territorio) of the Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

13.-That the delimitation carried out had the accompaniment of the Área de Conservación Pacífico Central, System of Conservation Areas (Sistema de Áreas de Conservación), for the demarcation of the public zone in the mangrove ecosystem sector, in accordance with official communication SINAC-ACOPAC-OSRAP-116-2018, dated February 12, 2017 (sic).

14.-That Article 140 of Law No. 6227, General Law of Public Administration, states that "the administrative act shall produce its effect after being communicated to the administered party, except if it only grants rights, in which case it shall produce it from the moment it is adopted," a provision that must necessarily be related to numeral 204) 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 ones by notification." COMMUNICATES:

Manglar Sector Esterillos Este

Curridabat, September 06, 2019

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.

Por su parte, el artículo 12 del decreto de cita, refuerza la aplicación de la proyección cartográfica CRTM05 como el sistema nacional de coordenadas oficial a la cual se deben referenciar en el territorio continental de nuestro país, al señalar que ".todos los levantamientos y actividades cartográficos y geodésicos que desarrollen en el territorio nacional toda dependencia pública, persona o entidad privada, nacional o extranjera, que emprendan o contraten trabajos geodésicos y cartográficos, contribuyéndose a evitar el gasto público y obteniendo, por otra parte, información geográfica confiable, uniforme y comparable, que sea de utilidad general y que apoye la toma de decisiones en los distintos niveles del Estado."

10.-Que el artículo 16° de la Ley Forestal, Ley Nº7575 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 Pacífico Central, utilizó la metodología de "Delimitación Digital Georreferenciada" para delimitar la zona pública de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre en un sector de manglar en Esterillos Este ubicado en distrito 01 Parrita, cantón 09 Parrita, provincia 06 Puntarenas, esto conforme diligencias realizadas por la señora Soleida Rojas Sánchez, cédula N° 2-0221-0838 ante el Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

12.-Que la delimitación realizada cuenta con aval técnico interno conforme al oficio N° DIG-TOT-0264-2019 del 30 de julio de 2019, emitido por el Subproceso de Limites Oficiales del Departamento Topográfico y Observación del Territorio del Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

13.-Que la delimitación realizada contó con el acompañamiento del Área de Conservación Pacífico Central, Sistema de Áreas de Conservación, para la demarcación de la zona pública en el sector de ecosistema de manglar, de acuerdo con el oficio SINAC-ACOPAC-OSRAP-116-2018, de fecha 12 de febrero de 2017 (sic).

14.-Que el artículo 140 de la Ley Nº 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".

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Sector de Manglar Esterillos Este

Curridabat, 06 de setiembre del 2019