ESTUDIO DE DAÑOS Y CONTAMINACION ATMOSFERICA EN LOS MONUMENTOS HISTORICOS DE LA CIUDAD DE AREQUIPA, PERÚ

Abstract

In its history, the city of Arequipa, Peru, has undergone cyclical processes of destruction and reconstruction. After each catastrophe, new stylistic trends were added. The 1784 seismic movement delimited the current constructive technical profile of the city. According to the Historic Center of Arequipa management plan, created in 2002 by the Provincial Municipality of Arequipa, 48.75% of the buildings are of sillar and the rest of other building materials. Here is the significance of this study, in the characterization of the pathologies present in the sillar-based buildings. In this work the observed pathologies are presented and, in parallel, a study of the vehicle density in the Historic Center of Arequipa was carried out. The results show a strong correlation between the vehicle density and the number of pathologies observed. This study allowed to define three areas with high, medium and low degree of contamination, as well as to define the damages to the monuments, product of the different pathologies and finally it is important to emphasize that the vehicles-generated emissions affect Historical Monuments, therefore it is necessary the implementation of priority measures to the city.