"Foro por la Defensa de la Quebrada de la Plata" a site of scientific interest and principal green lung of West Santiago.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 1rd, 13.30 hours in classroom n°2 in ICEI will be realized "Foro por la Defensa de la Quebrada de la Plata", a site of scientific interest and principal green lung of West Santiago.

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Quebrada de la Plata is in  Fundo Rinconada or Experimental Station Germán Greve Silva, of property of Universidad de Chile and administered by Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas. This place was donated by family's President in 1933.

Is a site destined, principally, to scientific studies, where, the State, across his different lines of financing to the investigation, it destines funds to make concrete the above mentioned studies. In turn, the sector is inserted in the Sitio Prioritario de Conservación El Roble N°2, assigned by Chile in the Cumbre de la Tierra (Rio ' 92) and ratified in 1994; in addition, it is considered to be one of the Areas of Ecological Preservation according to the Plan Regulador de Santiago (MINVU, 2010), aspects that emphasize his high ecological value. Together with the previous thing, the sector possesses a high historical value, since these places used as refuge the Ejército Realista in his defeat in Batalla de Maipú in 1818 and where it is said popularly, they hid his exchequers and objects of value that give origin to his name.

Presently, la Quebrada is being controlled of completely illegal form by different mining companies that extract, principally, oxide of copper, which derives in a serious ecological - social conflict in a sector that in addition supplies of water the inhabitants of the west sector of the Capital. It is necessary to indicate that the above mentioned companies to the date, do not possess any type of Declaration or Evaluation of Environmental Impact, Plan of Managing or any instrument demanded by the current legislation for the effects of his tasks, which was translated in diverse denunciations come from the citizenship and corroborated by public organisms of taxation as CONAF, which stated in situ part of the destruction of the flora of the Quebrada.

Human, cats and utilities

For a long time human beings and cats coexist, during 9500 years, Felis silvestris catus accompanies us. Recent studies indicate a direct origin of the domestic current cats with the wild cats of the Middle East, knocking down the idea of that the wild african cat, Felis silvestris lybica, is his more immediate ancestor.

Depend of contex cats have been loved or hated. In the Ancient Egypt were venerated because they were considered and estimated by his sweetness, his grace and his sloth, but the cat is especially a protective animal, if it weren't for they presence, Egyptians might not have protected their silos, vital resource for this civilization, from the rates.

In the Medieval Times they were burned in the bonfire, besides that they were used to medical porpuses. With their bodys persons were doing ointments and medicines, even with their excrements were used frequently the preparation of recipes to diminish the fall of the hair or to treat the fever or the epilepsy, even when in the periods of hunger or of site one was eating the meat of cats.