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Alert in Bogotá river flood
posted on: Dec 12 2011 7:30 by RDugey. Viewed 9 times.
The Magdalena river, the main
of Colombia, turned yesterday to get out of bed in part of his middle basin, another focus of concern for the country, plagued by a season of heavy rains that have left at least 141 killed reportedly provided yesterday in Bogota by the Colombian Red Cross (CRC), this flood part of the River, with a course of 1,558 kilometres and affecting Colombia from South to North, it caused the first emergency for flooding.
The director of the national Socorro of the CRC, Caesar Urueña, stressed that the most serious situation live it neighbors of four quarters of Puerto Salgar, locality of the central regional Department of Cundinamarca, which is also capital Bogotá.
Floods affected some 400 families in this village, in a part of the basin which weighs one high alert (red, evacuation) issued by the Institute of hydrology, meteorology and studies u000aEnvironmental (Ideam, State).
The river has also overflowed in some rural areas of the towns of Honda, in the Department of Tolima.
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