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| Type of Event: | Flood |
| Location of Event: | Peru |
| Date of Charter Activation: | 31 March 2017 |
| Time of Charter Activation: | 08:30:00 |
| Time zone of Charter Activation: | UTC+02:00 |
| Charter Requestor: | SIFEM Argentina on behalf of Instituto Nacional de Defensa Civil de Perú - INDECI |
| Activation ID: | 523 |
| Project Management: | CONIDA |
Peru is undergoing devastating floods which forecasts suggest could continue until May.
The Civil Protection Agency of Peru reports: 97 people have died, 184,112 people are affected, 30,184 houses were destroyed with more than 180,000 damaged, 232 bridges have been destroyed, 1596 kilometres of road were destroyed, and 35,597 hectares of crops have been lost.
The flooding is the result of a local El Niño weather system which has brought torrential rain to northern Peru since early March.
The cities of Piura, Trujillo and Chiclayo are among those worst affected, but estimates suggest that 800 villages have also been destroyed. The floods have caused mudflows to sweep into some cities, bringing further disruption.
The flood situation was made worse on 26 March, after the Piura River burst its banks, raising the water levels to 1.8 metres in some locations such as the town of Catacaos.
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Map produced by CONIDA
Map produced by CONIDA
Map produced by CONIDA
Map produced by CONIDA
Map produced by Yamaguchi University, Japan
Map produced by Yamaguchi University, Japan
Map produced by Yamaguchi University, Japan
Map produced by Yamaguchi University, Japan
Map produced by Yamaguchi University, Japan
Map produced by Yamaguchi University, Japan
Post-disaster: 03/04/2017
Map produced by CONIDA
Post-disaster: 03/04/2017
Map produced by CONIDA
Map produced by CONIDA
SPOT-6: 17-06-2016
PeruSat-1: 17-03-2017
SPOT-6 © CNES 2017 - Distribution: Airbus Defence and Space, all rights reserved
PeruSat-1 © CONIDA 2017
Map produced by CONIDA
Map produced by CONIDA
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