Resumen en inglés

In some localities of the municipality of San Carlos, Department of Córdoba, is being carried out legally and in some cases is illegally developed the extraction of trawl material, by means of the open-pit exploitation system manually and without any type of environmental mining contemplation generating socio-environmental impacts. The present study has been carried out through the bibliographic review, the application of interviews and the observation of the zones, the amount of extraction points of the trawl material was determined, as well as the situation of the populations surrounding the generation zones and the Effects of environmental environments, finally, management strategies were proposed to optimize the explotation system. Among the results are: 1) The people dedicated to mining are in total 50; 2) The quality of life is very low, the populations don`t have potable water and sewerage service and the daily earnings are on average $ 20,000 pesos per person expressing disagreement because it does not meet their daily needs; 3) The environmental impacts that most manifest in the extraction areas are the processes of erosion and loss of plant cover and wildlife.