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The panorama in Antioquia is worrying after the Dagran Risk Management Administrative Department announced the list of municipalities in Antioquia that present alerts, either for floods or landslides.
According to the departmental disaster response agency, 121 of the 125 municipalities in Antioquia are at risk of landslides. Of these, 42 are on red alert, 61 on orange alert and 18 on yellow alert.
Among those on red alert are: Abejorral, Guarne and San Vicente Ferrer from the East; from the West: Cañas Gordas, Dabeiba, Frontino, Uramita; of Urabá: Apartadó, Arboletes, Carepa, Chigorodó, Mutatá, Necoclí, San Pedro de Urabá and Turbo.
In Bajo Cauca, Cáceres, El Bagre, Nechí, Tarazá and Zaragoza are on red alert; while in the North the following were also declared: Briceño, Carolina, Donmatías, Gómez Plata, Ituango, San Pedro de los Milagros, Santa Rosa de Osos and Valdivia.
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From the Northeast appear: Amalfi, Anorí, Remedios, Santo Domingo, Segovia, Vegachí and Yolombó; and from the Southwest: Concodria, Tarsus, Urrao and Venice.
Finally, Barbosa, Copacabana and Girardota are on red alert in Aburrá.
On the other hand, yellow alerts appear 61 municipalities from eight subregions. For example, from Urabá are Murindó and Vigía del Fuerte; of Magdalena Medio: Maceo, Puerto Berrío and Yondó; from the Northeast: Cisneros, San Roque and Yalí; of the North: Angostura, Belmira, Campamento, Entrerríos, Guadalupe, San Andrés de Cuerquia, Toledo and Yarumal.
Likewise, from the East appear: Alejandría, Concepción, La Ceja, La Unión, El Peñol, El Retiro, Rionegro, San Carlos and San Rafael. And from the West they come: Abriaquí, Anzá, Armenia, Buriticá, Caicedo, Ebéjico, Giraldo, Heliconia, Liborina, Olaya, Peque, Sabanalarga, San Jerónimo, Santa Fe, Sopetrán.
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From the Southwest on orange alert are: Amagá, Angelópolis, Betania, Betulia, Caramanta, Ciudad Bolívar, Fredonia, Jericó, Montebello, Pueblorrico, Salgar, Santa Bárbara, Titiribí, Támesis and Valparaíso.
In Aburrá, the municipalities with this type of alert are: Bello, Caldas, Envigado, La Estrella, Medellín and Sabaneta.
Finally, 18 municipalities in five subregions are on yellow alert. These are in Bajo Cauca, Caucasia; in Magdalena Medio, Caracolí; in the North, San José; in the Southwest: Andes, Hispania, Jardín, La Pintada; in the East: Algeria, Cocorná, El Carmen, Santuario, Granada, Guatapé, Marinilla, Nariño, San Luis and Sonsón. In Aburrá: Itagüí.
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But it is not only the landslides that worry Dagran, the floods also occupy the attention of the relief agency. Given this topic, The entity indicated that in Antioquia there are 59 municipalities at risk due to this type of emergency, 23 of them are on red alert, 31 on yellow alert, and five on yellow.
Those that are on red alert in Bajo Cauca are: Tarazá, Cáceres and Caucasia; in the West: Abriaquí, Cañasgordas, Dabeiba, Frontino and Uramita; in Urabá: Vigía del Fuerte, Murindó, Mutatá, Turbo, Carepa, Chigorodó, and Apartadó.
In the Aburrá Valley, Barbosa, Caldas, Medellín, Sabaneta, Itagüí, Copacabana, Bello and La Estrella are also on red alert.
There are 31 municipalities in six subregions on orange alert. Yondó, Remedios, Amalfi and Anorí appear in this list in Magdalena Medio; Necoclí, San Juan de Urabá and Arboletes, in Urabá; Santa Fe, Ebéjico, Heliconia, Armenia, Buriticá and Sopetrán in the West; Urrao, Andes, Betania, Salgar, Ciudad Bolívar, Pueblorrico and Fredonia in the Southwest; as well as Briceño, Gómez Plata, Santa Rosa, Donmatías, Angostura, Campamento, Yarumal and Valdivia.
Finally, Abejorral, La Unión, Montebello, Támesis and Valparaíso are on yellow flood alert.
The department’s emergency authorities strongly ask the communities of these territories at extreme risk to take precautionary measures during this new rainy season that is just beginning in the department.
The “winter” in Antioquia this year has already left four people missing, as well as six people dead in the municipalities of La Unión, Titiribí, Urrao, Carepa and Bello. Likewise, Dagran has counted so far in 2024 about 169 emergencies throughout Antioquia, of which 61 have been mass movements, 39 floods, 42 gales.
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To these events we must add the torrential floods, the structural collapses and sudden floods like the one that occurred last weekend that swept away a mother and her son in Mutatá.
Given this recent event, the authorities asked the community Avoid doing activities in puddles, streams and rivers during this rainy season.
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“The recommendation is not to attend any event where we are close to the river, precisely because there in Mutatá there was a person who could alert them and was supposedly prepared for it. But a sudden surge is not controllable and that is precisely why we are lamenting the Mutatá incident. The answer is blunt, please do not hold events near rivers or streams,” said Dagran director Carlos Ríos.
