Resumen

To the southeast of the department of Tolima, more exactly 72 km from its capital, is located the municipality of Guamo, where its municipal seat is at a height of 321 m.s.n.m. the municipality has an average temperature of 28ºC and a total extension of 18,751.09 km2 of which 386.58 km2 is the urban area and 18,364.51 km2 is the rural area, as can be seen above, the rural area of this municipality is mayor, which suggests and according to the population statistics developed by the DANE in the census of 2005, the municipality is mostly made up of people living in their rural area, it can be deduced then, that the economy of the guamunos depends to a greater extent on the crops that the habitants of the rural areas have on their farms. The municipality of Guamo is recognized as an agricultural center, silviculturist, fish farm and agro-tourism in the center of the country. In the Tierra de Gosen farm, in the village, Caracoli la Arenosa al North-west of Guamo wants to do studies for the design of an irrigation system that is self-sufficient, optimal, economical and durable; so that this system facilitates the process of irrigation to the plantations of cutting grass that the farm has. The project in question has a series account of studies that are going to be exploited, explained and analyzed in the course of this document, which demonstrate and will sustain the viability of the research and the solution to the problems found in the farm Land of Gosen.