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2011 Colombia floods
Date
April, September–November 2011[1] (ongoing)
Location
Colombia
Deaths
At least 400 (April)[2][3]
81 (September–November)[4]
Property damage
US$5 billion (est.)
A series of floods in Colombia began in late April 2011, coinciding with the country's rainy season. Torrential rains triggered extensive flooding and landslides that killed at least 187 people and 1.2 million people affected by the devastating flood.[5] It destroyed and damaged 1450 and 149270 houses respectively [5] and left more than 69,000 homeless. Estimates have placed damage at US$5 billion.[2] After September, a second wave of flooding and landslides (coinciding with the year's second rainy season) killed another 81 people,[4] wounded 65 more and affected approximately 289,000 (including 61,000 families).[1] However the heavy rain and flooding effected 28 out of 32 departments of Colombia.[5]
^ ab"Invierno cobra la vida de 64 personas; 22 el fin de semana". El Espectador (in Spanish). Comunican S.A. November 6, 2011. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
^ abUnattributed (April 25, 2011). "93 dead in Colombia floods". United Press International. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
^ abCite error: The named reference Buscan was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ abcREDLAC (2012). "REDLAC Weekly Note on Emergencies Latin America & the Caribbean" (PDF). Risk Emergency Disaster Working Group for Latin America and the Caribbean. 241.
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