Overall Green alert Flood for Colombia
in Colombia

Event summary

Flood Colombia can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1101466
Death: 8
Displaced: -
Countries: Colombia
From - To 04 Jun - 12 Jun

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Northern and Central Colombia, Mid to Late June 2022Colombia's Civil Defence reported heavy rain caused flooding in the departments of Magdalena, Antioquia, Atlántico and Cundinamarca from 10 June 2022. On 19 June 540 people were affected by floods in Ariguaní municipality of Magdalena Department. On 14 June floods in Caldas municipality in Antioquia destroyed 1 house destroyed and damaged 30. On 15 June 130 people were affected by flooding in Soledad municipality in Atlántico department. Twenty-two homes were damaged. Also from 15 June, flooding struck in Madrid and Mosquera municipalities in Cundinamarca Department. Around 100 people and 25 homes were affected in Mosquera. A landslide occurred near the village of Mosoco in the municipality of Páez in the east of the department of Cauca late on 18 June 2022. Two homes were completely destroyed. Eight people, all members of the same family, died in the incident.Mon 20 Jun 2022FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
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Emergencia en zona rural de Boyacá por desbordamiento de un río2022-06-07T17:43+0200.

Alrededor de 700 familias del corregimiento de Puerto Pinzón, zona rural de Puerto Boyacá, se encuentran afectadas tras el desbordamiento del río Ermitaño durante la madrugada de este martes. La emergencia se inició sobre las 2 de la mañan
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Las viviendas en zonas vulnerables, una gran amenaza para vidas humana ... 2022-05-23T19:14+0200.

Con una billonaria suma invertida, de 11,4 billones de pesos en una década, la política de riesgo en Colombia no ha causado el impacto esperado. Pasaron 10 años desde que la ola invernal de 2010 llevó al país a entrar en “Emergencia Económi
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Colombia, en riesgo de desastres naturales pese a inversión de $11 bil ... 2022-05-23T05:26+0200.

El drama de la familia de una niña de 7 años y su padre, que fueron arrastrados por la creciente súbita de una quebrada en Antioquia y siguen desaparecidos, es apenas uno de los cientos de casos que muestran la gravedad de las afectaciones
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Nearly 60 million people forced to flee homes in 20212022-05-19T09:49+0200.

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said today. Some 59.1 million people were registered as interna
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (7), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),