Bajio Quelitos: Ojo de Agua de la Trinidad
Country
Nuevo León
Published:
22-Dec-2023
Last updated on:
22-Dec-2023
Ojo La Trinidad destruido
The Ojo de la Trinidad, once a large wet area and spring that was dried up in the late 1980s by unscrupulous extraction of water to use in inefficient crop watering systems [Nuevo León]. Photo by Juan Miguel Artigas Azas. (24.105°N, 100.055°W). Photo by Juan Miguel Artigas Azas. (26-Apr-2023).
Country
Nuevo León

The locality profile for Bajio Quelitos: Ojo de Agua de la Trinidad, within the Llanos El Salado ecoregion, introduces this freshwater setting through FFM’s curated geographic and natural-history context. It provides an accessible overview of the locality’s general description, its conservation context and the curator’s broader observations. The account emphasizes the locality as an aquatic environment and the broader themes that help explain its character, without reducing the profile to a species checklist or disclosing sensitive site details. By bringing the available sections together in one focused narrative, the profile offers a useful starting point for understanding the locality’s place in its drainage and wider landscape, while inviting readers to explore the complete account..

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Conservation: Ojo de Agua de La Trinidad dried up during the late 1980s (Tveteraas, 1995), with the consequential extinction of Cyprinodon immemoriam from its only habitat. The disappearance of the other times very large springs and wet areas is a clear example of the unscrupulous and unsustainable exploration of water from the water table for inefficient watering of crops, done in front of the eyes of the uninterested community.