Demarcation of Public Zone for Estero/Manglar Changua, Bahía Ballena, OsaDelimitación de zona pública del Estero/Manglar Changua, Bahía Ballena, Osa

8905, the National Geographic Institute, hereinafter IGN, is established as a dependency of the National Registry, which shall sign the contracts and agreements necessary for the exercise of its functions. Likewise, in accordance with Law No. 59, the IGN is the scientific and technical dependency governing national cartography, destined for the execution of the official Basic 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 related to said works, in order to support planning processes.

59 constitutes the IGN, permanently and in representation of the State, as the official authority in geodetic matters and in the spatial representation of the geography of the Republic of Costa Rica, its authority extending to activities of any order originating from the works entrusted to its charge.

59; article 62 of Executive Decree No. 7841-P, called Regulation to the Law on the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone, the competence of the IGN for the delimitation of the public zone of the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone is recognized, and its officialization through publication in the Official Gazette La Gaceta; article 63 of Executive Decree No. 7841-P indicates that the National Geographic Institute must 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-MOPT-MINAET, Regulation of Specifications for the Delimitation of the public zone of the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone, dated June 28, 2011, in accordance with articles 18, 19, and 20, it is established that for the types of delimitation of the Public Zone of the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone, the IGN may use two execution methodologies, namely: a) delimitation through the placement of boundary markers (mojones) and; b) georeferenced digital delimitation, which is a methodology that allows the georeferencing of the ordinary high-water mark (pleamar ordinaria), based on coordinates in the country's official reference system, established by Executive Decree No. 33797-MJ-MOPT titled Declares CR05 as the official horizontal datum for Costa Rica, linked to the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF2000) of the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) for the measurement epoch 2005.83, without the need for the placement of boundary markers (mojones), 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 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 indicating in its article 11 that The National Geodetic Network of Horizontal Reference CR05 and the CRTM05 cartographic projection system shall constitute the only official coordinate system for the Republic of Costa Rica, from which all cartographic and geodetic surveys and activities developed in the National Territory by any public dependency, person, or national or foreign private entity undertaking or contracting geodetic and cartographic works must be referenced, contributing in this way to avoid public spending and obtaining, on the other hand, reliable, uniform, and comparable geographic information that is of general utility and that supports decision-making at the different levels of the State.; while article 7 indicates that As cartographic data in the new CRTM05 cartographic projection system are produced, the National Geographic Institute shall publish, through appropriate means, that information which has been officialized.

40962-MJP, Update of the Official Horizontal Geodetic Reference System for Costa Rica, declares in its article 1 that The official horizontal geodetic reference system for Costa Rica, called CR05 and its materialization through the National Geodetic Network, changes its acronym to CRSIRGAS, as the official horizontal reference system for the Republic of Costa Rica, linked to the International Terrestrial Reference Frame ITRF2008 (IGb08), for the measurement epoch 2014.59, and henceforth, changes and its update shall be governed according to the new ITRF definitions implemented in the continental network of the Geocentric Reference System for the Americas (Sistema de Referencia Geocéntrico para las Américas, SIRGAS) called SIRGAS-CON, while article 2 establishes that The CRTM05 cartographic projection system shall continue to be the official one for the cartographic representation of the continental national territory, extended for the purposes of applying this cartographic projection up to the baseline of the territorial sea in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, this line defined in accordance with articles 5, 6, and 7 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, as the starting point for calculating the maximum width of all jurisdictional marine areas of the Costa Rican State.

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 indicating that The CRSIRGAS horizontal reference system and its associated cartographic projection CRTM05 for the continental territory extended to the baseline of the territorial sea, and the "Universal Transverse Mercator" (UTM) cartographic projection, zones 16 and 17 for the jurisdictional marine and insular areas in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, shall constitute the only official coordinate system for the Republic of Costa Rica, from which all cartographic and geodetic surveys and activities developed in the national territory by any public dependency, person, or private entity, national or foreign, undertaking or contracting geodetic and cartographic works must be referenced, contributing to avoid public spending and obtaining, on the other hand, reliable, uniform, and comparable geographic information that is of general utility and that supports decision-making at the different levels of the State.

7841-P; b) Executive Decree No. 33797-MJ-MOPT; and c) Executive Decree No. 36642-MP-MOPT-MINAET, all previously cited.

10.-That Law No. 7575, called the Forestry Law (Ley Forestal), dated February 13, 1996, establishes in its article 16 that the Ministry of Environment and Energy shall delimit on the ground the boundaries of the areas that comprise the State's Natural Heritage (Patrimonio Natural del Estado).

11.-That Law No. 6043 establishes in its article 1 of Chapter I, General Provisions, that The maritime-terrestrial zone constitutes part of the national heritage, belongs to the State, and is inalienable and imprescriptible. Its protection, as well as that of its natural resources, is an obligation of the State, its institutions, and all inhabitants of the country. Its use and exploitation are subject to the provisions of this law.

12.-That according to article 11 of Chapter I, General Provisions, of Law No. 6043, it is established that the public zone is also, whatever its extent, that occupied by all mangroves of the continental and insular coastlines and estuaries (esteros) of the national territory.

13.-That Executive Decree No. 36786-MINAET, titled Manual for the classification of lands dedicated to the conservation of natural resources within the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone in Costa Rica, published in La Gaceta No. 217 of November 11, 2011, establishes among its objectives To identify within the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone those lands that classify as forests, of forestry aptitude (Class VII and VIII soils), wetlands (mangroves, estuaries (esteros), rias (rías), marshes (marismas), coastal lagoons (lagunas costeras), swamps (pantanos), flooded forests (bosques anegados), salt flats (salitrales)), to certify and incorporate them as part of the State's Natural Heritage (Patrimonio Natural del Estado, PNE).

14.-That Executive Decree No. 36786-MINAET, in point III-Competencies for delimitation and certification, establishes that The classification of lands within the ZMT shall correspond to the Conservation Areas (Áreas de Conservación, AC) of the National System of Conservation Areas (Sistema Nacional de Áreas de Conservación, SINAC) and to private professionals duly accredited by the respective Professional Associations so that they classify forests, lands of forestry aptitude (Class VII and VIII soils), (mangroves, estuaries (esteros), rias (rías), marshes (marismas), coastal lagoons (lagunas costeras), swamps (pantanos), flooded forests (bosques anegados), salt flats (salitrales)) and wetlands.

The validity of the classification documents issued by private professionals shall be subject to the approval issued by the AC that corresponds by territorial competence. The ACs of SINAC with jurisdiction in the ZMT shall also be responsible for the verification, oversight, demarcation (deslinde), and certification of the lands of the State's Natural Heritage and the protection zones.

The location and delimitation of the State's Natural Heritage areas within the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone must be carried out as part of the approval process for the Coastal Regulatory Plan (Plan Regulador Costero, PRC), defined by Law 6043, since the Coastal Regulatory Plan is the territorial planning instrument that defines and locates all zones to be concessioned within the ZMT and for its classification at the level of cadastral plans (planos de catastro). Therefore, the Coastal Regulatory Plan must clearly and expressly indicate the PNE areas so as not to count them in the total area to be concessioned.

15.-That by means of official letter SINAC-ACOSA-PNE-AD-124-2020, dated June 3, 2020, issued by the Osa Conservation Area (Área de Conservación Osa), the verification of the delimitation of the Estuary-Mangrove (Estero-Manglar), Rancho La Merced Farm, carried out by Ing. Melissa Uribe Mora, described in the report Delimitation of the Estuary-Mangrove ecosystem (ecosistema Estero-Manglar) corresponding to the public zone in the Playa Hermosa sector, Bahía Ballena, Osa, is carried out.

16.-That by means of official letter SINAC-ACOSA-D-389-2020, dated August 25, 2020, signed by Ms. Laura Rivera Quintanilla, acting Director of the Osa Conservation Area of the National System of Conservation Areas of the Ministry of Environment and Energy, addressed to Ms. Marta Aguilar Varela, Director of the National Geographic Institute, approval is granted to the survey carried out by Ing. Melissa Uribe Mora, according to the technical reports prepared through official letters SINAC-ACOSA-PNE-AD-124-2020 and SINAC-ACOSA-PNE-AD-160-2020, carried out by officials Top. Eng. Roberto Martínez Fernández, Forestry Eng. Ginette Jiménez Soto, Forestry Eng. Javier García Rodríguez, and Bach. Jorge Andrés Quesada Badilla of the Osa Conservation Area, based on Executive Decree No. 36786-MINAET.

17.-That by means of the report called "Delimitation of the Estuary-Mangrove ecosystem (ecosistema Estero-Manglar) corresponding to the public zone in the Playa Hermosa sector, Bahía Ballena, Osa" prepared by Ing. Melissa Uribe Mora, at the time an employee of the company INCOPOAS Sociedad Anónima, at the request of Walter Odio Victory, identity card number 9-0008-0897, Legal Representative of Rancho La Merced, the technical information of the topographic survey for the delimitation of the Estero-Manglar Changua ecosystem corresponding to the public zone in the Playa Hermosa sector, Bahía Ballena, Puntarenas, is submitted to the IGN.

18.-That by means of official letter DIG-TOT-0050-2021, dated February 9, 2021, issued by the Official Limits Subprocess of the Topographic and Territory Observation Department of the IGN, the Directorate of the National Geographic Institute was informed that the works carried out by Ing. Melissa Uribe Mora have the technical endorsement for their publication.

19.-That article 140 of Law No. 6227 indicates 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 time it is adopted, a provision that must necessarily be related to article 240 of the same regulatory body, which defines the suitable instrument for communicating acts of a generic nature by indicating that General acts shall be communicated by publication and specific ones by notification.

Communicates:

First.-The National Geographic Institute publishes in the Playa Hermosa sector, located in district No. 04 Bahía Ballena, of canton No. 05 Osa, of province No. 06 Puntarenas, by means of the methodology used and validated by both the Osa Conservation Area (ACOSA) of SINAC-MINAE and the National Geographic Institute, the georeferenced digital delimitation of the public zone of the Estero-Manglar Changua ecosystem of the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone in said sector.

Second.-The delimited public zone of the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone of the Estero-Manglar Changua ecosystem in the sector known as Playa Hermosa in the Bahía Ballena district, of the Osa canton, of the Puntarenas province, corresponds to the boundary markers (mojones) whose coordinates in the Costa Rica CRTM05 cartographic projection system are indicated below:

Estero-Manglar Changua Sector:

Third.-Boundary marker MU1 of this delimitation coincides with the 50m strip of the public zone of the ría (ría) of the Higuerón River, furthermore MU168 connects with the coastal boundary marker (mojón de costa) called M36 published in La Gaceta No. 54 of March 8, 1985. Finally, boundary marker M1 published in La Gaceta No. 54 of March 8, 1985, connects with the coordinate point East: 526402.81 and North: 1013741.11 of the ría (ría) of the Higuerón River.

Fourth.-The official technical data of the georeferenced digital delimitation of the public zone of the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone of the Estero-Manglar Changua ecosystem of the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone have been registered in the Digital Georeferenced Geodatabase (GDG) of the National Geographic Institute (IGN) on the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone (ZMT), in a file in vector shape format, under the coding RN/IGN_GDG-IGN-ZMT digital lines.

Fifth: It takes effect from its publication.

Issued in Curridabat on the 27th day of the month of October of the year 2021.

Asimismo, de conformidad con la ley Nº 59, el IGN es 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 El sistema de referencia horizontal CRSIRGAS y su proyección cartográfica asociada CRTM05 para el territorio continental extendido hasta la línea de base del mar territorial y, la proyección cartográfica "Universal Transversal de Mercator" (U'TM), zonas 16 y 17 para las áreas marinas e insulares jurisdiccionales en el océano Pacífico y el mar Caribe, constituirán el único sistema oficial de coordenadas para la República de Costa Rica, a partir del cual, se deben referenciar 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 la ley Nº 7575 denominada Ley Forestal del 13 de febrero de 1996 en su artículo 16 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.-Que la ley Nº 6043 establece en su artículo 1 del Capítulo I, Disposiciones Generales que La zona marítimo terrestre constituye parte del patrimonio nacional, pertenece al Estado y es inalienable e imprescriptible. Su protección, así como la de sus recursos naturales, es obligación del Estado, de sus instituciones y de todos los habitantes del país. Su uso y aprovechamiento están sujetos a las disposiciones de esta ley.

12.-Que según el artículo 11 del Capítulo I, Disposiciones Generales de la ley N.º 6043, establece que la Zona pública es también, sea cual fuere su extensión, la ocupada por todos los manglares de los litorales continentales e insulares y esteros del territorio nacional.

13.-Que el Decreto Ejecutivo Nº 36786-MINAET titulado Manual para la clasificación de tierras dedicadas a la conservación de los recursos naturales dentro de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre en Costa Rica publicado en La Gaceta N.º 217 del 11 de noviembre del 2011, establece entre sus objetivos Identificar dentro de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre aquellos terrenos que clasifiquen como bosques, de aptitud forestal (suelos Clase VII y VIII), humedales (manglares, esteros, rías, marismas, lagunas costeras, pantanos, bosques anegados, salitrales), para certificarlos e incorporarlos como parte del Patrimonio Natural del Estado (PNE).

14.-Que el Decreto Ejecutivo N.º 36786-MINAET en el punto III-Competencias para la delimitación y certificación establece que La clasificación de los terrenos dentro de la ZMT corresponderá a las Áreas de Conservación (AC) del Sistema Nacional de Áreas de Conservación (SINAC) y a profesionales privados debidamente acreditados por los Colegios Profesionales respectivos para que clasifiquen los bosques, terrenos de aptitud forestal (suelos Clase VII y VIII), (manglares, esteros, rías, marismas, lagunas costeras, pantanos, bosques anegados, salitrales) y humedales.

La validez de los documentos de clasificación emitidos por profesionales privados quedará sujeta a la aprobación que emita el AC que por competencia territorial le corresponda. A las AC del SINAC con jurisdicción en la ZMT les competerá, además, la verificación, fiscalización, deslinde y certificación de las tierras del Patrimonio Natural del Estado y las zonas de protección.

La ubicación y delimitación de las áreas del Patrimonio Natural del Estado dentro de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre, debe realizarse como parte del proceso de aprobación del Plan Regulador Costero (PRC), definido por la Ley 6043, ya que el Plan Regulador Costero es el instrumento de ordenamiento territorial, que define y ubica todas las zonas a concesionar dentro de la ZMT y para la clasificación de ésta a nivel de los planos de catastro. Por tanto, el Plan Regulador Costero debe indicar clara y expresamente, las áreas del PNE para no contabilizarlas en el área total a concesionar.

15.-Que en mediante oficio SINAC-ACOSA-PNE-AD-124-2020 de fecha 03 de junio de 2020 emitido por el Área de Conservación Osa, se lleva a cabo la verificación de delimitación de Estero-Manglar, Finca Rancho La Merced realizado por la Ing. Melissa Uribe Mora descrito en el informe Delimitación del ecosistema Estero-Manglar correspondiente a zona pública en sector de Playa Hermosa, Bahía Ballena, Osa.

16.-Que mediante el oficio SINAC-ACOSA-D-389-2020 de fecha 25 de agosto de 2020 suscrito por la Sra. Laura Rivera Quintanilla directora a. í. del Área de Conservación Osa del Sistema de Áreas de Conservación del Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía, dirigido a la Sra. Marta Aguilar Varela directora del Instituto Geográfico Nacional, se otorga visto bueno al levantamiento realizado por la Ing. Melissa Uribe Mora, según los informes técnicos elaborados mediante los oficios SINAC-ACOSA-PNE-AD-124-2020 y SINAC-ACOSA-PNE-AD-160-2020, realizados por los funcionarios Ing. Top. Roberto Martínez Fernández, Ing. Forestal Ginette Jiménez Soto, Ing. Forestal Javier García Rodríguez y el Bach. Jorge Andrés Quesada Badilla del área de Conservación Osa, con base en el Decreto Ejecutivo N.º 36786-MINAET.

17.-Que mediante el informe denominado "Delimitación del ecosistema Estero-Manglar correspondiente a zona pública en sector de Playa Hermosa, Bahía Ballena, Osa" elaborado por la Ing. Melissa Uribe Mora, en su momento funcionaria de la empresa INCOPOAS Sociedad Anónima, a solicitud de Walter Odio Victory, número de cédula 9-0008- 0897, Representante Legal de Rancho La Merced, se presenta al IGN la información técnica del levantamiento topográfico para la delimitación del ecosistema Estero-Manglar Changua correspondiente a zona pública en sector de Playa Hermosa, Bahía Ballena, Puntarenas.

18.-Que mediante el oficio DIG-TOT-0050-2021 de fecha 09 de febrero de 2021, emitido por el Subproceso de Límites Oficiales del Departamento Topográfico y Observación del Territorio del IGN, se le comunicó a la Dirección del Instituto Geográfico Nacional que los trabajos realizados por la Ing. Melissa Uribe Mora cuentan con el aval técnico para su publicación.

19.-Que el artículo 140 de la ley Nº 6227 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 artículo 240 del mismo cuerpo normativo, mismo que define el instrumento idóneo para comunicar actos de naturaleza genérica al señalar que Se comunicarán por publicación los actos generales y por notificación los concretos.

Comunica:

Primero.-El Instituto Geográfico Nacional publica en el sector de Playa Hermosa, ubicado en el distrito N° 04 Bahía Ballena, del cantón N° 05 Osa de la provincia N° 06 Puntarenas, por medio de la metodología usada y validada tanto por el Área de Conservación Osa (ACOSA) del SINAC-MINAE y por el Instituto Geográfico Nacional, la delimitación digital georreferenciada de la zona pública del ecosistema Estero-Manglar Changua de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre en dicho sector.

Segundo.-La zona pública de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre delimitada del ecosistema Estero-Manglar Changua en el sector conocido como en Playa Hermosa en el distrito Bahía Ballena, del cantón Osa de la provincia Puntarenas, corresponde a los mojones cuyas coordenadas en el sistema de proyección cartográfico Costa Rica CRTM05, se indican a continuación:

Sector de Estero-Manglar Changua:

Tercero.-El mojón MU1 de la presente delimitación es coincidente con la franja de los 50m de zona publica de la ría del rio Higuerón, además el MU168 se une con el mojón de costa denominado M36 publicado en La Gaceta N°. 54 del 08 de marzo de 1985. Por último, el mojón M1 publicado en la Gaceta N°. 54 del 08 de marzo de 1985 se une con el punto de coordenadas Este: 526402.81 y Norte: 1013741.11 de la ría del rio Higuerón.

Cuarto.-Los datos técnicos oficiales de la delimitación digital georreferenciada de la zona pública de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre del ecosistema Estero-Manglar Changua de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre han quedado registrados en la Geodatabase Digital Georreferenciada (GDG) del Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN) sobre la Zona Marítimo Terrestre (ZMT), en un archivo con formato vectorial shape, bajo la codificación RN/IGN_GDG-IGN-ZMT líneas digitales.

Quinto: Rige a partir de su publicación.

Dado en Curridabat a los 27 días del mes de octubre del año 2021.