Notice No. 006-2022: Delimitation of Public Zone of Punta Mono Congo Estuary/MangroveDelimitación de zona pública de un sector del estero/manglar Punta Mono

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, designated 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 work and the development of national policies of a cartographic, geographic, geodetic, geophysical, and similar nature related to said works, for the purpose of supporting planning processes.

59 permanently establishes the IGN, on behalf 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 kind originating from the work entrusted to its charge.

59; article 62 of Executive Decree No. 7841-P, denominated Regulation to the Law on the Maritime Terrestrial Zone, the competence of the IGN is recognized for the delimitation of the public zone of the Maritime Terrestrial Zone, 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," it is established according to article 18° that for the delimitation of the public zone of the Maritime Terrestrial Zone, the IGN may resort to two execution methodologies, indicated in articles 19 and 20, corresponding to the delimitation of the public zone of the Maritime Terrestrial Zone through the placement of boundary markers (mojones) and/or through digital georeferenced delimitation, this for the purpose of expediting delimitations and providing greater technical security to interested parties.

33797-MJ-MOPT, which, among other aspects, determines the National Geodetic Horizontal Reference Network 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 article 11 that: "The National Geodetic Horizontal Reference Network CR05 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 undertaken in National Territory by any public dependency, person, or private national or foreign entity 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 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, denominated as 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 updating shall be governed according to the new definitions of the ITRF implemented in the continental network of the Geocentric Reference System for the Americas (SIRGAS) denominated 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 national continental territory, extended for purposes of application of 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 computing the maximum breadth 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 CRTM05 cartographic projection 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 sole official coordinate system for the Republic of Costa Rica, from which all surveys and cartographic and geodetic activities undertaken in the national territory by any public dependency, person, or private entity, national or foreign, that undertake or contract geodetic and cartographic works must be referenced, contributing to avoiding public hand, reliable, uniform, and comparable geographic information.

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

10.-That Law No. 7575, denominated Forestry Law, dated February 13, 1996, in its article 16, establishes that the Ministry of Environment and Energy shall delimit on the ground the boundaries of the areas that make up the Natural Heritage of the State.

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 establishes that the public Zone is also, whatever its extension, that occupied by all mangroves of the continental and insular coastlines and 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 Identifying within the Maritime Terrestrial Zone those lands that classify as forests, of forestry aptitude (Class VII and VIII soils), wetlands (mangroves, esteros, rías, salt marshes, coastal lagoons, swamps, flooded forests, salt flats), to certify them and incorporate them as part of the Natural Heritage of the State (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 (AC) of the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) and to duly accredited private professionals from the respective Professional Colleges to classify forests, lands of forestry aptitude (Class VII and VIII soils), (mangroves, esteros, rías, salt marshes, coastal lagoons, swamps, flooded forests, salt flats), and wetlands.

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

The location and delimitation of the areas of the Natural Heritage of the State within the Maritime Terrestrial Zone must be carried out as part of the approval process for the Coastal Regulatory Plan (PRC), defined by Law 6043, since the Coastal Regulatory Plan is the instrument of territorial planning that defines and locates all the zones to be concessioned within the ZMT and for its classification at the level of cadastral plans.

15.-The National Geographic Institute used the methodology of Georeferenced Boundary Marker Delimitation to delimit the public zone of the Maritime Terrestrial Zone of the estero/manglar Punta Mono Congo, in the district: 01° Chomes, canton: 07º Puntarenas, province: 06º Puntarenas.

16.-That, through the "Topographic report of the manglar in Punta Mono Congo," located in Bajo Chontales, Golfito, prepared by Ing. Adriana Ibarra Vargas at the request of Ana Victoria Garro Vargas, identification number 1-0377-0467, legal representative of the company: Eureka la Purruja Sociedad Anónima, as an interested party in the process, the technical information of the topographic survey for the delimitation of a sector of the estero/manglar Mono Congo in Golfito, Puntarenas, is presented to the IGN.

17.-That the delimitation carried out has internal technical endorsement in accordance with official letter No. DIG-TOT-0813-2021 of December 22, 2021, issued by the Official Limits Subprocess of the Topographic Department and Territory Observation of the National Geographic Institute. In accordance with the delimitation of the public zone in the sector of the manglar Punta Mono Congo ecosystem, carried out by the Osa Conservation Area according to official letter SINAC-ACOSA-PNE-AD-009-2021 of January 18, 2021.

18.-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 normative body, which defines the suitable instrument for communicating acts of a generic nature by indicating that General acts shall be communicated by publication and concrete ones by notification.

COMMUNICATES:

First.-That, in the month of June 2020, survey work was carried out for the establishment of boundary markers georeferenced to the national coordinate system of the public zone of a sector of the estero/manglar Punta Mono Congo located in Bajo Chontales, district: 01º Golfito, canton: 07º Golfito, province: 06° Puntarenas.

Second.-The National Geographic Institute publishes the georeferenced digital delimitation of the public zone of the Public Zone of 64 points that form part of the estero/manglar Punta Mono Congo located in Bajo Chontales, district: 01º Golfito, canton: 07º Golfito, province: 06° Puntarenas, determined by means of the methodology used and validated by the Osa Conservation Area of SINAC-MINAE.

Third.-That the delimited public zone corresponds to a sector of the estero/manglar of Punta Mono Congo in accordance with official letter SINAC-ACOSA-PNE-AD-009-2021 of January 18, 2021, issued by the Osa Conservation Area of the National System of SINAC-MINAE.

Fourth.-That the public zone of the Maritime Terrestrial Zone corresponding to a sector of the estero/manglar of Punta Mono Congo, verified and delimited by the Osa Conservation Area, corresponds to the coordinates in the official cartographic projection system of Costa Rica CRTM05, as follows:

Estero/Manglar Mono Congo

Fifth.-The sectors located in Punta Mono Congo, district: 01º Golfito, canton: 07º Golfito, province: 06° Puntarenas, that to date have delimitation of the public zone of the Maritime Terrestrial Zone through the placement of boundary markers and respective publication in the Official Gazette La Gaceta, maintain their official condition.

Sixth.-The official technical data of the georeferenced delimitation of 64 points in the public zone of the Maritime Terrestrial Zone of the estero/manglar of Punta Mono Congo have been recorded in the Digital Georeferenced Geodatabase of the Maritime Terrestrial Zone (ZMT) of the IGN.

Seventh.-It takes effect upon its publication.

Given in Curridabat, San José, on the 25th day of the month of February of the year 2022.-

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" (UTM), 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.

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 Nº 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 Nº 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 Nº 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.

15.-El Instituto Geográfico Nacional, utilizó la metodología de Delimitación de Mojones Georreferenciados, para delimitar la zona pública de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre del estero/manglar Punta Mono Congo, en el distrito: 01° Chomes, cantón: 07º Puntarenas, provincia: 06º Puntarenas.

16.-Que, mediante el "Informe topográfico del manglar en Punta Mono Congo", ubicado en Bajo Chontales, Golfito elaborado por la Ing. Adriana Ibarra Vargas a solicitud de Ana Victoria Garro Vargas, número de cédula 1-0377-0467, representante legal de la sociedad: Eureka la Purruja Sociedad Anónima, como interesada en el proceso, se presenta al IGN la información técnica del levantamiento topográfico para la delimitación de un sector del estero/manglar Mono Congo en Golfito Puntarenas.

17.-Que la delimitación realizada cuenta con aval técnico interno conforme al oficio N° DIG-TOT-0813-2021 del 22 de diciembre de 2021, emitido por el Subproceso de Límites Oficiales del Departamento Topográfico y Observación del Territorio del Instituto Geográfico Nacional. De acuerdo con la delimitación de la zona pública en el sector de ecosistema del manglar Punta Mono Congo, realizada por el Área de Conservación Osa según oficio SINAC-ACOSA-PNE-AD-009-2021 de 18 de enero del 2021.

18.-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.-Que, en el mes de junio de 2020, se realizó trabajo de levantamiento para el establecimiento de mojones georreferenciados al sistema nacional de coordenadas de la zona pública de un sector del estero/manglar Punta Mono Congo ubicado en Bajo Chontales, distrito: 01º Golfito, cantón: 07º Golfito, provincia: 06° Puntarenas.

Segundo.-El Instituto Geográfico Nacional publica la delimitación digital georreferenciada de la zona pública de la Zona Pública de 64 puntos que forman parte del estero/ manglar Punta Mono Congo ubicado en Bajo Chontales, distrito: 01º Golfito, cantón: 07º Golfito, provincia: 06° Puntarenas, determinados por medio de la metodología usada y validada por el Área de Conservación Osa del SINAC-MINAE.

Tercero.-Que la zona pública delimitada corresponde a un sector de estero/manglar de Punta Mono Congo en conformidad al oficio SINAC-ACOSA-PNE-AD-009-2021 de 18 de enero del 2021 emitido por el Área de Conservación Osa del Sistema Nacional del SINAC-MINAE.

Cuarto.-Que la zona pública de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre correspondiente a un sector del estero/manglar de Punta Mono Congo, verificada y delimitada por el Área de Conservación Osa corresponde a las coordenadas en el sistema de proyección cartográfica oficial de Costa Rica CRTM05, como sigue:

Estero/Manglar Mono Congo

Quinto.-Los sectores ubicados en Punta Mono Congo, distrito: 01º Golfito, cantón: 07º Golfito, provincia: 06° Puntarenas que cuentan a la fecha con delimitación de la zona pública de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre a través de la colocación de mojones y respectiva publicación en el Diario Oficial La Gaceta, mantienen su condición oficial.

Sexto.-Los datos técnicos oficiales de la delimitación georreferenciada de 64 puntos en la zona pública de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre del estero/manglar de Punta Mono Congo, han quedado registrados en la Geodatabase Digital Georreferenciada de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre (ZMT) del IGN.

Sétimo.-Rige a partir de su publicación.

Dado en Curridabat, San José a los 25 días del mes de febrero del año 2022.-