Analysis of the tourists operations for the observation of the humpback whales (megaptera novaeangliae) in the canton Puerto López, Manabí - Ecuador
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Erica Maryuri Dalfo Villegas [1] ; Olga Laurmania Quevedo Pinos [1] ; Yana Inzhivotkina [1] ; Maria Fernanda Calderon Vega [2]
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[1] Universidad de Guayaquil
Universidad de Guayaquil
Guayaquil, Ecuador
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[2] Escuela SuperiorPolitécnica del Litoral
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- Localización: Global Partnerships for Development and Engineering Education: Proceedings of the 15th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education and Technology,July 19-21, 2017, Boca Raton, FL, United States / Victor Hugo Gonzalez Jaramillo (dir.), Pedro Fabricio Zanzzi Diaz (dir.), Rudy Altamirano Zambrano (dir.), Gissela Ganchozo Ortega (aut.), 2017, ISBN 978-0-9993443-0-9
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The observation of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) began in the canton Puerto López - Manabí Ecuador at the beginning of the 90s, the tourist activity on this resource grew and became attractive for the labor opportunities, that’s why in this research it was analyzed the compliance of legal norms for the whale watching and tourist management. Twenty tour s had about 22 boats, which attend 72544 domestic and foreign tourists. This data were registered only during the whale watching season from June to September 2014. It was corroborated that the boats approach to the whales from 10 to 40 m distance and every time they try to go closer. This fact can cause the migration of whales in other areas away from Puerto López in a short or long term or it can affect their reproduction.
