CHANGING  LAND  USE,  CHANGING  RIVER CHANNELS...   A STUDY IN THE VENEZUELAN ANDES   This study aims to show a correlation between change in watershed land use and change in river channel morphology, or shape.  The entire study contains six watersheds, however, this project focuses on one of them, the Rio Las Marias. The study site is located on the South side of the Venezuelan Andes, in the Portuguesa Province, North of the town of Guanare.   (click map for more information from MIT's Venezuela server) If you would like some more details of the study, click here. For the methods of analysis of this study, click here. For the proposal of the entire thesis, click here.
For the results, click here.