Prospects for land cover in the Sub-basin of the Mocal River, Lempira, Honduras, Central America

Abstract

The target of development of this investigation based on the study of the dynamics of Change of the coverage of the ground in the Sub basin of the Rio Mocal, generating for it a Futurology for a Period of 20 years of the Coverage of the Earth. There being defined for it the identification of the problems that affect on the territorial development of the Sub basin, likewise establishing stages of (tendencial) Destination, stages of Future and stages of Happening. The implementation methodology for this study was based on the Identification and characterization of problems, there developed a diagnosis where one determined the prime movers of the changes of the Coverage of the Earth and there were formulated stages applied by the proposal of methodology by Hevia (Araujo, O. R. 2005) for the Sub basin of the Rio Mocal. As result there were obtained initial periods where they show themselves the area of the coverages of the ground showing increases and decreases of the same one, beginning in the year 2014 and finishing in the year 2035.