{"id":3134,"date":"2021-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/news\/rescatemos-el-rio-lempa\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:56:14","slug":"rescatemos-el-rio-lempa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/archive\/rescatemos-el-rio-lempa\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescatemos el Rio Lempa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>El R\u00edo Lempa es el r\u00edo m\u00e1s largo de El Salvador, es compartido con Guatemala y Honduras. Entre su cuerpo principal y sus afluentes se encuentra en 9 de los 14 departamentos de El Salvador, representa el 47% la extensi\u00f3n territorial del pa\u00eds. Solamente en la regi\u00f3n hidrogr\u00e1fica del Lempa ubicada en el territorio salvadore\u00f1o, viven un poco m\u00e1s de 3.5 millones de salvadore\u00f1os, de estos, alrededor de 2.44 millones se encuentran en la zona urbana y 1.06 en la zona rural. El R\u00edo Lempa juega un papel fundamental en la econom\u00eda y el bienestar de comunidades y urbanizaciones dentro y fuera de su cuenca. Entre los principales servicios destacan el suministro de agua potable, la generaci\u00f3n de energ\u00eda, la irrigaci\u00f3n y provisi\u00f3n de tierras agr\u00edcolas y la regulaci\u00f3n del clima.<\/p>\n<p>La cuenca del r\u00edo Lempa tiene una gran variedad de ecosistemas repartidos en sus m\u00e1s de 2,800 metros de diferencia altitudinal y casi 18,000 kil\u00f3metros cuadrados de \u00e1rea repartidos entre Honduras, El Salvador y Guatemala. Estos ecosistemas representan gran parte del patrimonio natural centroamericano, albergando miles de especies que necesitan de nuestro compromiso com\u00fan por la conservaci\u00f3n de los ecosistemas terrestres y acu\u00e1ticos para asegurar su supervivencia.<\/p>\n<p>La cuenca del R\u00edo Lempa se encuentra en crisis debido a la sobreexplotaci\u00f3n de los servicios que nos brinda y a la degradaci\u00f3n de sus r\u00edos, bosques y humedales. Las principales fuentes de contaminaci\u00f3n son:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manejo inadecuado de desechos s\u00f3lidos<\/li>\n<li>Descarga de aguas negras, principalmente desde centro urbanos<\/li>\n<li>Manejo inadecuado de desechos industriales y agroindustriales<\/li>\n<li>Deforestaci\u00f3n en la cuenca<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Entre los resultados de la campa\u00f1a #RescatemosElLempa se encuentra la declaratoria del 14 de marzo D\u00eda Nacional del R\u00edo Lempa, que permitir\u00e1 reflexionar sobre la importancia del fortalecimiento de capacidades de gesti\u00f3n de agua est\u00e1 vinculada a poder brindar informaci\u00f3n para la toma de decisiones conscientes.<\/p>\n<p>Para conocer m\u00e1s sobre esta iniciativa puede visitar la p\u00e1gina web <a href=\"http:\/\/riolempa.org\/\">www.riolempa.org<\/a> Sigue el resto de la campa\u00f1a con el #RescatemosElLempa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GWP El Salvador, FUNDE, Red Interinstitucional para el Desarrollo Territorial, Let\u2019s Do It El Salvador y 22 organizaciones de sociedad civil han formado la Red Trinacional por el Rescate del R\u00edo Lempa. #RescatemosElLempa es una campa\u00f1a para concientizar sobre la importancia de uno de los principales r\u00edos de Centroam\u00e9rica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[81,22,52,82],"class_list":["post-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","tag-centroamerica","tag-ecosystems","tag-girh","tag-spanish"],"acf":[],"spectra_custom_meta":{"_sidebar_content":["field_69d4d421acab1"],"sidebar_content":[""],"_old_url":["field_69d4d472acab2"],"old_url":["https:\/\/www.gwp.org\/es\/GWP-Centroamerica\/EN_ACCION\/NOTICIAS\/rescatemos-el-rio-lempa\/"],"_last_date":["field_69d4d498acab3"],"last_date":["04\/05\/2021"],"_event_start":["field_69d4d4c4acab4"],"event_start":[""],"_event_end":["field_69d4d4dcacab5"],"event_end":[""],"_scrape_id":["field_69d4d4ebacab6"],"scrape_id":["02-GWP-Spanish-Central-America"],"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_thumbnail_id":["4466"],"iawp_total_views":["3"],"_uag_page_assets":["a:9:{s:3:\"css\";s:0:\"\";s:2:\"js\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"current_block_list\";a:14:{i:0;s:13:\"core\/freeform\";i:1;s:11:\"core\/search\";i:2;s:10:\"core\/group\";i:3;s:12:\"core\/heading\";i:4;s:20:\"core\/latest-comments\";i:5;s:9:\"core\/list\";i:6;s:14:\"core\/list-item\";i:7;s:19:\"rank-math\/toc-block\";i:8;s:14:\"core\/accordion\";i:9;s:19:\"core\/accordion-item\";i:10;s:22:\"core\/accordion-heading\";i:11;s:20:\"core\/accordion-panel\";i:12;s:14:\"core\/paragraph\";i:13;s:10:\"core\/image\";}s:8:\"uag_flag\";b:0;s:11:\"uag_version\";s:10:\"1779305747\";s:6:\"gfonts\";a:0:{}s:10:\"gfonts_url\";s:0:\"\";s:12:\"gfonts_files\";a:0:{}s:14:\"uag_faq_layout\";b:0;}"]},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/art_riolempa.jpg",640,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/art_riolempa-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/art_riolempa-300x141.jpg",300,141,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/art_riolempa.jpg",640,300,false],"large":["https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/art_riolempa.jpg",640,300,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/art_riolempa.jpg",640,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/art_riolempa.jpg",640,300,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"satsiriwinberg@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/author\/satsiriwinberggmail-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"GWP El Salvador, FUNDE, Red Interinstitucional para el Desarrollo Territorial, Let\u2019s Do It El Salvador y 22 organizaciones de sociedad civil han formado la Red Trinacional por el Rescate del R\u00edo Lempa. #RescatemosElLempa es una campa\u00f1a para concientizar sobre la importancia de uno de los principales r\u00edos de Centroam\u00e9rica.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions\/3803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/centroamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}