Comptroller warns health risk in wetlands in Valdivia

In January of this year, Valdivia was chosen as the first Humedal City in Latin America, a distinction granted by the Standing Committee of the Ramsar Convention in Switzerland. Despite this designation, the Regional Comptroller of Los Ríos found that there are light-material constructions located in an area of the urban wetland Bosque-Miraflores-Las Mulatas-Guacamayo, which mostly have black wells, whose wastes are disposed of directly in the w…