In Latin American developing countries, the noise pollution issue is not very different. The daytime road traffic noise of
49.81% of Santiago de Chile has above 55 dBA (Suárez and Barros, 2014), whilst in the urban area of Medellin, Colombia, the
50% of the total noise measurements reported levels above 72 dBA during daytime, and 68 dBA during nighttime (Yépez
et al., 2009). Zannin et al. (2013) found that 90% of the 58 measurement points recorded noise levels above 55 dBA in the
campus of the Polytechnical Center of the Universidade Federal do Parana (Federal University of Parana) in Curitiba. Pinto
and Mardones (2009) found that the noise levels in Copacabana were over the allowed values due to traffic