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= Social Impact of Wind Power Energy in la Guajira: = The wind turbines that produce thermal and electrical energy in the Eolic park in the Alta Guajira are the basis of a project of Rural development for 5.000 wayuu families, this proyect two private companies comverge a receipt (wayuu jurisdiction ) and the municipalities of Uribia and Manaure. they formed the utility company that provides the public services for the Wayuu community (ESP)

The Wayuu are an Amerindian ethnic group of the [|La Guajira Peninsula] in northern [|Colombia] and northwest [|Venezuela]. They characterize by the organization of their society which is devided in clans some of them are the following: Aapushana, Epieyu, Iguana, Jayaliyuu, Jusayuu. And that the descent recording is through the maternal line. Their principal economic activities are the trade, fisheries and the goat livestock.

[] Wayuu indigenous girls in an hammock were they sleep [] Wayuu indigenous people in special costume for a presentation with their traditional backpacks embroidered by them

Social Wayuu Problems and the solutions using Eolic Energy
Of the total number of citizens in La Guajira 64 percent have the basic necessities unsatisfied, the Uribia municiple according to the national Misery study carried out by National Official Colombian planning Department has the worst state with 95 percent of its population with no basic neccesities satisfied. The Eolic Wayuu park is constructed in an intermediate zone between Cabo de la Vela and Puerto Bolivar where the northeast trade winds have a mayor force, in this park there are aproximately 15-30 torres of wind turbine 60 m high with blades of 30 m long. It generates 20 megavities of energy, the maximun allowed by the Colombian lejislation, allowng this park to enter to the regulated national market of energy in Colombia which attends the interconnected system of this country.

The Wayuu eolic park is going to reinvest 50% of its utilities in the installation of the infrastructure for the basic services of energy, drinking water, sewer, and telephone service for the rural development in the region this is the main reason why this project accepted the economic resources of the programs of // Economic Cooperation and Transactions of Exportation // used for the Economic development in Holland. This economic help program provide the 30% of the total cost of the project, this is an example of the International cooperation that Colombia ans specifically Guajira department receives to solve a mayor social problem. Jorge Ibarra Wayuu resguard representative declared that with the economic and social help of the government since the year 2000 when they became part of the Society that provides public services "now there are expectations of a better life in the Wayuu Rancherias in La Alta Guajira"

The indiginous Wayuu guard covers 90% of the rural part of the Manaure Municiple in which 35.000 people live in 800 "Rancherias" which are groups of 5 to 10 housing in the middle of the desert. The representative of the wayuu guarded territory expresed his hope that the arrival of energy to the rancherias allows the Wayuu families refrigerate and preserve, improve their diet and establish companies for the fish trade and agricultural products that could be obtained if their is a risk for the Guajira land. The people that live in Manaure and Uribia urban areas get the water supply from desalination companies and the people that live in the Rancherias recollect the water in wells provided by the windmills, also the jaquelles were the low rain fall origin water is recollected. La Guajira department in Colombia is a territory which the rain season is only in October and Novemeber, in May and Agoust it dosent rain a lot, the rest of the year it dosent rain at all, leaving the Ranchwerias with no water to store affecting the life quality of its habitants.

Fernando Gutierrez representative form the company Acuire that designed the project said in 2003 that this form of generating energy is a way to overcome the principal problem that the public service companies have to deal with in the remote regions caused besides the economical reasons by no consulting to the communities of the region their necessities and not inverting in the local development.