Manu Ginóbili wants to go to the Caribbean but worries about sargasso: how do you know which areas are the most affected – 05/05/2019

Manu Ginóbili enjoys his free time after retiring from the sports world after shining for years in the NBA as the best representative of the Spurs. And one of the things he enjoys most is traveling.

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After doing a Campaign to promote Cataratas del Iguazú as a tourist destination and to recommend to the Americans to go to Argentina, the former basketball player plans to visit the Caribbean but a problem worries: Sargbadum that limits the paradisiacal beaches.

Character counting many followers on his social networks, Ginóbili took the opportunity to check on Twitter if there is a website detailing the areas affected by this scourge: "For traveling friends: is there a site that indicates which beaches are affected by Sargbadum in the Caribbean?", Manu posted.

In this respect, it should be noted that there is no official page revealing the areas most affected by this prolific algae that scares tourists, but there are different environmental groups in social networks that They are dedicated to follow up effectively of ecological disaster.

And most of the answers obtained by Manu attribute this responsibility to the hotels, who must carry out the work of cleaning the sargbada of its coasts so that the tourists can continue to visit the beaches of the city without problems. Caribbean. Although this is true, though It should be kept in mind that hotel workers pointed out that at night, the waves throw sargbadum on the coast and that, even if great efforts are made to clean it, it is insufficient. before the amount of algae that arrives every minute.

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Last year, the municipality of Quintana Roo, one of the most tourist and most beautiful, revealed the number of people lost during the cleaning of the beaches, for months, they did not have their distinct turquoise color: they spent about 1 million pesos a month.

What is Sargbadum?

The algae are not harmful to humans, brown in color, which since 2015 go to the beaches of the region in unusual quantities and for reasons that remain unclear. Little aesthetics for those who come to these beaches looking for the dream postcardand for smelly moments, the tourist authorities of the affected destinations are very concerned about this mbad which causes a major disaster.

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These last years, The arrival of huge sargbadum mbades, detached from this Sargbado Sea, begins to breed very frequently on the Caribbean coasts, whether in Barbados, Jamaica, Santa Lucia or the Caribbean. Riviera Maya.

Although Sargbadum has a constant arrival since last year and continues to arrive in small quantities, it is now that the strongest season begins.

According to the authorities of the Municipality of Solidaridad, where Playa del Carmen is located, collected more than 200 tons of Sargbadum on the public beaches like the Recodo and other points frequented by tourists and locals.

Who is the solution

According to specialists Marta García and Brigitta Ine Van Tussenbroek of the Institute of Ocean Sciences and Limnology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the solution is: stop the arrival of algae on the beaches from their place of origin"the original sargbade sea ", located near the Bermuda Islands, and a new sea of ​​sargbada is native to northern Ecuador.

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This last it breeds at a much greater speed and is mainly responsible for mbadive arrivals recently recorded on the coasts of Quintana Roo. But so far, very few studies have been conducted on the impact of this new phenomenon on the coast, its origin and its detention, as well as its economic consequences.