Overall Orange alert Drought for North Argentina-2019
in Argentina

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 4 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of severe to extreme events.

GDACS ID DR 1013282
Name: North Argentina-2019
Glide number: DR-2020-000031-ARG
Countries: Argentina
Start Date: End of Jun 2019
Duration: 558 days
Impact: Medium impact for agricultural drought in 84846 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),