REDCAM Isla de San Andrés Southwestern Caribbean Latitude:   12.5000     Longitude:   -81.7000 Associated Investigators: Luisa Espinosa , Others to be added soon   Related Web Sites: [siam.invemar.org.co/siam/redcam/index.jsp]   Related Time Series: [ Isla de San Andrés - Caribbean ]   [ Isla de Providencia - Caribbean ]   [ Western Colombia-Caribbean Shelf ]   [ Eastern Colombia-Caribbean Shelf ]   [ Dept of Cauca - Pacific ]   [ Dept of Choco - Pacific ]   [ Dept of Narino - Pacific ]   [ Dept of Valle-del-Cauca - Pacific ]   The Colombian Marine Environment Monitoring Network (REDCAM) initiated in 2001, with the purpose of grouping the institutions and the efforts necessary to evaluate the chemical and sanitary quality of the marine and estuarine waters of Colombia; it is composed of 16 nodes and main server located at INVEMAR (Santa Marta); each node counts with hardware and software for a Input and retrieval tables and cartographic information about the quality of marine and coastal waters of Colombia. It was established a network of field stations that covers most of the Colombian coasts. In each one, since 2001, twice a year, it has been registering the values of the main physicochemical and bacteriological variables that characterize the quality of the marine and estuarine waters. Based on this information, the following zones have been identified as critical for its marine and coastal pollution: Santa Marta, Cartagena, Barranquilla, Morrosquillo, Uraba and San Andrés, at the Caribbean coast and Buenaventura, Guapi and La Tola at the Pacific coast.