Soledad, Malambo, Piojó, Usiacurí and Repelón are the municipalities of the Atlantic in which, until now, a public calamity has been declared as a result of the serious emergencies caused by the heavy rains.
that are being recorded with great intensity in the Caribbean region.
This was confirmed to Blu radio by the Undersecretary of Attention and Disaster Prevention of the Atlantic, pointing out that, during this Thursday, other municipalities will advance their own Risk Management Councilssince it is not ruled out that they may also be covered under said declaration to address the winter crisis.
Nelson Oquendo, undersecretary of Attention and Disaster Prevention of Atlántico, pointed out that “from our office we have activated the Risk Management Councils throughout the department of Atlántico, which leads us to have permanent communication with the liaisons of the municipal mayors and, in this way, carry out permanent monitoring in each of them”.
And, among the most recent emergencies recorded in the Atlantic, the municipality of Sabanalarga was the epicenter last Tuesday of a strong gale that unroofed 21 houses in the town of Aguada de Pablowhile another 14 homes were left without roofs in the Cascajal district.
For its part, in the El Bosque neighborhood, located in the southwest of Barranquilla, At least six homes were affected by another gale recorded this Wednesday, which tore off roofs and caused the partial collapse of walls.especially in the sector of 61st Street and 9th Street.
According to the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies, Ideam, the heavy rains of recent days They are mainly related to the passage of a tropical wave over the Caribbean Seaadded to a low pressure system that would be dragging abundant cloudiness towards the northern Colombian coast.
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