SEPI Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales

• The agency in charge, the Adaptation Fund, has the task of carrying out the works for the recovery of the areas affected by the climate phenomenon of “La Niña”
• Tragsatec will be in charge of performing the technical study regarding the project’s feasibility, as well as overviewing the activities 

El “Fondo de Adaptación de Colombia”, an institution attached to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, has awarded the project for preparing the Feasibility Study of the Adaptation District of Tierras-Magará (Colombia). This institution is in charge of carrying out the works for the recovery, building and reconstruction of the areas affected by the climate phenomenon of the “La Niña”, which is the cause of the strong changes in the temperatures and the rain cycles in these lands.

The activities will be carried out within the framework of the National Management System for Risks of Disasters, which is empowered for organizing and implementing comprehensive projects for mitigating the risk and adaptation to climate change, in coordination with the corresponding industries.

Tragsatec’s involvement

The works for the project, whose feasibility will be analyzed by Tragsatec (Grupo TRAGSA), will include, among other actions, the execution of a irrigation system and works for water-catchment area, as well as the building of a desander and of a main irrigation pipe, made up by the San Rafael Channel and with a 2.700 meter length. 

At the same time, it will set up a distribution system made up by several channels and a drainage system. The project will also include the construction of several dykes for flood control.

The project will affect a total area of 12,000 Hectares, and the total net area which will be possible to irrigate and drain will include 10,000 Hectares. Although local workers will be hired, the works will be supervised at all times by a Tragsatec’s team from Spain.

TRAGSA and Grupo SEPI

TRAGSA belongs to Grupo SEPI, a corporate holding which includes a total of 16 state-owned companies in which it has direct, majority shareholding participations, with a final workforce of around 73,000 professionals in 2014; the Spanish state-owned television and radio corporation, Corporación Radiotelevisión Española, which is attached to SEPI, and one public foundation. Equally, SEPI has direct minority shareholdings in a further ten companies, and indirect shareholdings in more than one hundred companies.