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Colombia: rains in 2022 killed 204 people and left nearly 500,000 homeless

A resident watches as his home is left behind by an avalanche due to heavy rains in a town in the Colombian Caribbean. | Font: EFE

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The National Disaster Risk Management Unit (Ungrd) reported this Thursday that rainy in Colombia, the strongest in four decades, they left 204 dead, 37 missing and 281 wounded this year.

As of November 10, according to the Office, 488,502 people (147,562 families) were left homeless due to rainfall in 772 of the 1,103 municipalities in the region. Colombia.

Similarly, 5,840 houses were destroyed due to rain-related impacts, and another 77,045 were severely damaged.

In addition, 2,213 roads, 247 road bridges, 114 footbridges, 321 aqueducts, 84 sewers, 19 health centers and 247 schools were affected by rain or related events.

All this is the product of 1149 mass movements, 788 floods, 294 storm avenues, 83 thunderstorms, 32 hailstorms and 8 thunderstorms.

floods They also cause other effects such as destruction of crops and loss of animals, especially cattle and poultry.

Colombian government measures

Colombian government announced last Tuesday that it had allocated 2.1 trillion pesos (about $437 million today) to address the effects of the rains on issues such as food, health care and housing.

With the rainy season at its highest level in 40 years, Colombian President Gustavo Petro also declared the situation in the country a “catastrophe” last week.

The Colombian head of state explained that declaring the situation a “catastrophe” allows the state to move resources that were budgeted by the previous government and are not being used.

The resources will be used, according to Petro, to “help (in other ways) the population in a crisis situation”, both “because of the flood” and “because of the famine”. EFE


Source: RPP

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