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The Güira-Quivicán basin (Havana southern plain) is a coastal aquifer, which has been submitted to a high overexploitation for agricultural irrigation and population water supply, originating in an invasion of seawater to the aquifers. This paper shows that there are different geochemical zones characterized by different geochemical processes, which originate from several hydrochemical water types: Ca-HCO3, Ca>Na-HCO3>Cl, Ca>Na-Cl>HCO3, Na>Ca-Cl-HCO3, Na>Ca-Cl and Na-Cl. The more interesting can be observed in the wells adjacent to a wetland, where intense geochemical processes occur: calcite precipitation, dolomitization, anaerobic reduction of sulphate, and inverse ionic exchange between calcium and sodium. This process increases with the percentage of seawater in the mixing of fresh water and seawater.
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Castillo, J.R.F., Hernández, P.G., Muñoz, M.S., Díaz, R.H., Rodríguez, C.M. (2013). Hydrogeochemical Processes Effect Over the Water Quality in the Coastal Limestone Aquifer of Güira-Quivicán, Havana Southern Plane, Cuba. In: Farfán González, H., Corvea Porras, J., de Bustamente Gutiérrez, I., LaMoreaux, J. (eds) Management of Water Resources in Protected Areas. Environmental Earth Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16330-2_7
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