2. BAMBOO IN MEXICO
Courtesy of Dr. Eduardo Ruiz-Sánchez
NATIVE BAMBOOS
11 Gender
54 species:
• 50 woody
• 4 herbaceous
IMPORTED BAMBOOS
50 species aproximately – No oficial inventory.
3. CULTIVATED BAMBOOS: 8,000 productive Hectares (aproximate amount)
8,000 developing process Hectares (aproximate amount)
NATIVE SPECIES IMPORTED SPECIES
Guadua inermis Guadua angustifolia Phyllostachys aurea
Otatea acuminata Bambusa vulgaris Phyllostachys aurea
Otatea rzedowskiorum Bambusa Oldhamii Phyllostachys reticulata
Bambusa lako Phyllostachys edulis
Bambusa multiplex Dendrocalamus asper
Dendrocalamus strictus
BAMBOO IN MEXICO
4. Guadua in America
• 5 Million years - Cuenca de
Paraná (Argentina)
• 10,000 years – Southeast
Amanzonic (Perú)
• Aztec Codices S. VIII-XV A.C.
• Mayas sepultures S. VII-IX A.C.
BAMBOO IN MEXICO – HISTORIC USES
5. Bamboo rustic house (Guadua inermis),
gable roof with palm thatch,
Huasteca Veracruzana (80 years)
Bamboo rustic house (Otatea), gable roof
with palm thatch,
Ciudad Valles San Luis Potosí
BAMBOO IN MEXICO – HISTORIC USES
Courtesy of Dr. Eduardo Desezarte
6. Bamboo rustic house (Otatea), gable roof with palm thatch,
Yalalag, Oaxaca (Built in 1946)
Source: http://ru.iis.sociales.unam.mx/jspui/handle/IIS/4103
Bamboo rustic house (Guadua inermis), gable roof with
palm thatch,
San Sebastian Veracruz (Built in 1975)
BAMBOO IN MEXICO – HISTORIC USES
Courtesy of Dr. Eduardo Desezarte
7. Rustic house with traditional wattle and daub system using
bamboo (Guadua inermis), gable roof with palm thatch,
Huasteca Veracruzana
Rustic house with traditional wattle and daub system using
bamboo (Guadua inermis), gable roof foil,
Huasteca Veracruzana (90 years old)
BAMBOO IN MEXICO – HISTORIC USES
Courtesy of Dr. Eduardo Desezarte
12. BAMBOO IN MEXICO – Nursery gardens and plantations
Courtesy of Dr. Eduardo Desezarte
13. BAMBOO IN MEXICO – Containment of rivers
Courtesy of Dr. Eduardo Desezarte
14. Fuente: SSN, 2017
DATE Mw Depth Epicenter
14 jun 7.0 107 Chiapas
7 sep 8.2 46 Chiapas
19 sep 7.1 39 Puebla
23 sep 6.1 11 Oaxaca
85% - Oaxaca, Chiapas,
Guerrero
26,413 earthquakes in 2017
5,855 earthquakes in Sept 2017
SEISMIC RISK IN MEXICO
15. Source:
• 5,654,014 affected buildings - 12 million of people
(10% of the population).
• 369 deceased people.
• More than 250,000 people lost their homes.
• More than 180,000 affected homes, of which more
than 50,000 had complete destruction.
SEPTEMBER 2017 EARTHQUAKES
31. STAGE 1
25.5 m2 per
house
102 m2 TOTAL
STAGE 2
20 m2 per house
80 m2 TOTAL
80% SPONSORED
80% CONSTRUCTED
0% SPONSORED
0% CONSTRUCTED
COSTO: $560,000.00 MXN
Courtesy of Bambuterra
BiBa® SYSTEM – Pilot Reconstruction Project