Overall Green alert Flood
in Bolivia

Event summary

This flood can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1102440
Death: 6
Displaced: 1200
Countries: Bolivia
From - To 15 Jan - 31 Jan

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Bolivia - Floods (ECHO 17 Jan 2024)Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:40

  • Heavy rainfall has been affecting western Bolivia, particularly La Paz department over the last 48 hours, causing floods that have resulted in casualties and damage.
  • Media report, as of 17 January, two fatalities, of which one in the Tipuani municipality, La Paz department and one more across the same department. In addition, media also report six injured people, around 2,500 displaced people and approximately 150 damaged houses across the aforementioned department.
  • Over the next 24 hours, more heavy rainfall with locally very heavy rainfall is forecast over most of the country.
Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia, Mid-January 2024Civil Defence in Bolivia reported 21 people were rescued by helicopter after the overflow of the Piraí River in Santa Cruz Department in mid-January 2024.Thu 18 Jan 2024FloodList provided by Copernicus GloFAS
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Policía reporta muerte de seis personas y dos menores desaparecidos en.. 1/17/2024 11:17:00 PM.

La Paz, 17 de enero de 2024. – Seis personas perdieron la vida y dos menores de edad están desaparecidos tras la riada, inundaciones y hechos de tránsito que se registraron en el municipio de Tipuani, ubicado al norte del departamento de La
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Brigadas de Salud se desplazan a Tipuani para asistir a familias damni.. 1/16/2024 2:50:00 PM.

Brigadas de la Unidad de Riesgos y Desastres se desplazan a Tipuani, al norte del departamento de La Paz, para reforzar la atención médica a las familias afectadas por las inundaciones, informó este martes el viceministro de Promoción y Vig
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Bolivia reporta más de cuatro mil familias damnificadas por las lluvia.. 1/16/2024 1:58:00 PM.

Bolivia registró más de cuatro mil familias damnificadas por las lluvias e inundaciones entre noviembre y lo que va de enero, y otras 370 por las heladas y granizadas, informó este lunes el viceministro de Defensa Civil, Juan Carlos Calvimo
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Reportan más de 4.000 familias damnificadas por las lluvias desde novi.. 1/16/2024 5:23:00 AM.

Bolivia registró más de 4.000 familias damnificadas por las lluvias e inundaciones entre noviembre y lo que va de enero, y otras 370 por las heladas y granizadas, informó este lunes el viceministro de Defensa Civil, Juan Carlos Calvimontes.
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (4), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),