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 Ley Forestal, dated February 13, 1996, in its article 16, establishes that the Ministry of Environment and Energy shall demarcate on the ground, the boundaries of the areas that make up the Patrimonio Natural del Estado.
11.—That Law No. 6043 establishes in its article 1 of CHAPTER I, General Provisions, that The zona marítimo terrestre 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, of its institutions, and of all the 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 (Zona pública) is also, whatever its extension, the area 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 para la clasificación de tierras dedicadas a la conservación de los recursos naturales dentro de la Zona Marítimo Terrestre en Costa Rica, published in La Gaceta No. 217 of November 11, 2011, establishes among its objectives to identify within the Zona Marítimo Terrestre those lands that classify as forests, of forest aptitude (suelos Clase VII y VIII), wetlands (humedales) (mangroves, estuaries (esteros), rías, marshes (marismas), coastal lagoons, swamps (pantanos), flooded forests, salt flats (salitrales)), to certify them and incorporate them as part of the 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 Áreas de Conservación (AC) of the Sistema Nacional de Áreas de Conservación (SINAC) and to duly accredited private professionals by the respective Professional Associations to classify forests, lands of forest aptitude (suelos Clase VII y VIII), (mangroves, estuaries (esteros), rías, marshes (marismas), coastal lagoons, swamps (pantanos), flooded forests, salt flats (salitrales)), and wetlands (humedales).
The validity of the classification documents issued by private professionals will be subject to approval issued by the AC with corresponding territorial jurisdiction. The ACs of SINAC with jurisdiction in the ZMT shall also be responsible for the verification, oversight, demarcation, and certification of lands belonging to the Patrimonio Natural del Estado and protection zones.
The location and delimitation of the areas of the Patrimonio Natural del Estado within the Zona Marítimo Terrestre must be carried out as part of the approval process of the Plan Regulador Costero (PRC), defined by Law 6043, since the Plan Regulador Costero is the land-use planning instrument that defines and locates all zones to be concessioned within the ZMT and for its classification at the level of cadastral plans. Therefore, the Plan Regulador Costero must clearly and expressly indicate the PNE areas so as not to count them in the total area to be concessioned.
15.—That via official letter ACT-OR-T-975-2021, dated August 20, 2021, signed by Ing. Fabián Bonilla Salguero, Surveying Engineer, and official letter ACT-OSRSCC-10762021, dated August 4, 2021, issued by Ing. Rodrigo Alberto Sáenz Espinoza, Forestry Engineer, both from the Área de Conservación Tempisque of the Sistema de Áreas de Conservación of the Ministry of Environment and Energy, approval is granted for the survey and delimitation of two sectors of the Mangrove Playa Zapotal carried out by the company DEHC Sociedad Anónima.
16.—That through the report titled "INFORME TÉCNICO DEHC_2021_002 DELIMITACION ZONA MANGLAR ZAPOTAL GUANACASTE, COSTA RICA," prepared by the company DEHC Sociedad Anónima, at the request of Ricardo Antonio Batalla Robles, holder of identity card number 1-1258-0441, in his capacity as general representative of the company GLP Guanacaste Land Partners LLC Limitada, with legal entity identification number 3-102-801133, the IGN is presented with the technical information of the topographic survey for the delimitation of the Zapotal ecosystem in District 03° Sardinal, Canton 05° Carrillo, of Province 05° Guanacaste.
17.—That via official letter DIG-TOT-0055-2022, dated January 28, 2022, issued by the Subproceso de Límites Oficiales of the Departamento Topográfico y Observación del Territorio of the IGN, the IGN Directorate is informed that the work carried out by the company DEHC Sociedad Anónima regarding the Delimitation of two sectors of the Zapotal mangrove has the technical endorsement for 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 them from the moment it is adopted, a provision that must necessarily be related to article 240 of the same regulatory body, which defines the appropriate instrument for communicating acts of a generic nature by indicating that General acts shall be communicated by publication and specific acts by notification.
Communicates:
First.—The IGN publishes in the Zapotal sector, located in district 03 Sardinal, canton 03 Carrillo, of province 05 Guanacaste, through the methodology used and validated both by the Área de Conservación Tempisque of SINAC-MINAE and the IGN, the digital georeferenced delimitation of the public zone of the Zona Marítimo Terrestre for two sectors of the Zapotal mangrove.
Second.—The public zone of the Zona Marítimo Terrestre delimited for two sectors of the Zapotal mangrove at the site known as Zapotal in the Sardinal district, of the referred Carrillo canton, corresponds to the boundary markers (mojones) whose coordinates in the Costa Rica CRTM05 cartographic projection system are indicated below:
Sector 1 Zapotal mangrove:
| Hoja Cartográfica | Punta Gorda. Escala:50.000, Escala 1:50.000 | |
|---|
| SITIO | ZAPOTAL | |
| MOJÓN | NORTE (m) | ESTE (m) |
| AP02-01 | 1162117.78 | 303212.82 |
| AP02-02 | 1162122.68 | 303222.15 |
| AP02-03 | 1162139.78 | 303253.84 |
| AP02-04 | 1162160.10 | 303268.30 |
| AP02-05 | 1162178.58 | 303281.62 |
| AP02-06 | 1162211.88 | 303305.75 |
| AP02-07 | 1162207.01 | 303338.98 |
| AP02-08 | 1162223.44 | 303354.61 |
| AP02-09 | 1162219.50 | 303384.36 |
| AP02-10 | 1162197.83 | 303415.99 |
| AP02-11 | 1162176.09 | 303448.09 |
| AP02-12 | 1162145.45 | 303469.59 |
| AP02-13 | 1162126.04 | 303467.88 |
| AP02-14 | 1162088.47 | 303443.39 |
| AP02-15 | 1162044.39 | 303442.38 |
| AP02-16 | 1162001.55 | 303441.55 |
| AP02-17 | 1161989.42 | 303474.94 |
| Hoja Cartográfica | Punta Gorda. Escala:50.000, Escala 1:50.000 | |
| SITIO | ZAPOTAL | |
| MOJÓN | NORTE (m) | ESTE (m) |
| AP02-18 | 1161977.05 | 303508.54 |
| AP02-19 | 1161963.85 | 303536.31 |
| AP02-20 | 1161930.51 | 303573.40 |
| AP02-21 | 1161915.13 | 303585.80 |
| AP02-22 | 1161898.20 | 303580.67 |
| AP02-23 | 1161883.21 | 303566.41 |
| AP02-24 | 1161873.75 | 303539.34 |
| AP02-25 | 1161877.96 | 303494.52 |
| AP02-26 | 1161882.50 | 303451.25 |
| AP02-27 | 1161863.05 | 303431.96 |
| AP02-28 | 1161843.40 | 303412.82 |
| AP02-29 | 1161810.81 | 303403.67 |
| AP02-30 | 1161800.91 | 303385.39 |
| AP02-31 | 1161790.40 | 303377.81 |
| AP02-32 | 1161784.14 | 303334.60 |
| AP02-33 | 1161758.79 | 303303.92 |
| AP02-34 | 1161728.86 | 303300.63 |
Sector 2 Zapotal mangrove:
| Hoja Cartográfica | Punta Gorda, Escala 1:50.000 | |
|---|
| SITIO | ZAPOTAL | |
| MOJÓN | NORTE(m) | ESTE(m) |
| AP02-35 | 1161708.72 | 303294.81 |
| AP02-36 | 1161658.57 | 303328.70 |
| Hoja Cartográfica | Punta Gorda, Escala 1:50.000 | |
|---|
| SITIO | ZAPOTAL | |
| AP02-37 | 1161636.01 | 303352.19 |
| AP02-38 | 1161611.20 | 303377.81 |
| AP02-39 | 1161574.96 | 303398.91 |
| AP02-40 | 1161547.33 | 303376.68 |
| AP02-41 | 1161533.61 | 303369.17 |
| AP02-42 | 1161576.19 | 303340.45 |
| AP02-43 | 1161581.58 | 303328.75 |
| AP02-44 | 1161581.76 | 303307.09 |
| Hoja Cartográfica | Punta Gorda, Escala 1:50.000 | |
|---|
| SITIO | ZAPOTAL | |
| MOJÓN | NORTE(m) | ESTE(m) |
| AP02-45 | 1161591.89 | 303292.76 |
| AP02-46 | 1161609.60 | 303286.19 |
| AP02-47 | 1161638.16 | 303287.54 |
| AP02-48 | 1161676.60 | 303254.24 |
| AP02-49 | 1161691.27 | 303250.51 |
| AP02-50 | 1161747.25 | 303247.63 |
| AP02-51 | 1161759.28 | 303245.51 |
| AP02-52 | 1161774.01 | 303236.44 |
| AP02-53 | 1161792.39 | 303214.54 |
| AP02-54 | 1161804.34 | 303198.54 |
| AP02-55 | 1161826.63 | 303157.82 |
| AP02-56 | 1161842.51 | 303128.81 |
| AP02-01A | 1162116.02 | 303209.81 |
Third.—The delimitation of the Zapotal mangrove at the site known as Zapotal in the Sardinal district, of the Carrillo canton of the Guanacaste province, is published in accordance with official letters ACT-OR-T-975-2021 and ACT-OSRSCC-1076-2021 from the Área de Conservación Tempisque and the technical report DEHC_2021_002 prepared by the company DEHC Sociedad Anónima.
Fourth.—The official technical data of the digital georeferenced delimitation of the public zone of the Zona Marítimo Terrestre for the two sectors of the mangrove have been recorded in the Geodatabase Digital Georreferenciada (GDG) of the Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN) on the Zona Marítimo Terrestre (ZMT), in a file in vector shape format, under the coding RN/IGN_GDG-IGN-ZMT.
Fifth.—With this demarcation, the boundary markers (mojones) enumerated M93A, M92A, M92, and M91A published in the Diario Oficial La Gaceta No. 202 dated October 21, 1992, are eliminated.
Sixth.—It becomes effective upon its publication.
Given in Curridabat, San José, on the 6th day of the month of June of the year 2022.