Rio Colorado City
Good morning / afternoon / night!. Today we moved out of the AMO to exactly 38.4 kilometers (23.9 miles) northeast of the metropolis.
There he found the city of Rio Colorado. Located on the banks of the Colorado River and its urban area, the river flows into the Santiagueño, so that is a small peninsula of 2 square kilometers.
► Overview
► Commercial Area.
► Agriculture, the main activity of citizens.
► View of the confluence of the Colorado and Santiagueño, with the view of the peninsula and a memorial arch, below which explains what it is.
The day the Colorado River showed his anger
Thursday January 23, 2002. It was a wet day, typical summer day (southern hemisphere). And as is typical of the season, storms from the nearby Southern Ocean, brought an epic precipitation.
On Wednesday night January 22 the storm had reached the city of Ostend. Eight hours, 455 millimeters of rain. Between January and February 370 mm rain.
In the neighboring province of Tambora (Colorado River is right in the limted between Ostend and Tambora) the rain was more powerful, reaching down 521 millimeters in 10 hours.
20 miles north of the city on the river, lies the Dique Rojo dam. The incredible flood upstream soon reach the dam. Almost beyond the wall, creating panic in the area. Without warning to the population, and governmental orders, the floodgates opened at 17.48 local time. A wave of more than 5 meters walked by the river destroying what we all find in their path. In just two minutes, the water reaches the city.
Marisa Galindez, near Rio Colorado, told the newspaper La Voz del Interior, the city of Ostend, what you felt. His home was saved by only 30 meters from being hit by the fury of river.
The flood claimed the lives of 132 residents. In total, 140 people died, but with 132 deaths, was the most affected Colorado River. The 8 remaining victims belong to the Vasco town (the AMO).
▼Railroad Bridge just one hour after the flood.
▼To give you an idea of the first and only wave, is highlighted in blue on a commercial building downtown to where the water came.
▼I remarked in blue as far as you enter the water.
▼The zig zag makes the river south of the urban area was where more hit the wave, and in that neighborhood killed 70 people.
▼The zig zag makes the river south of the urban area was where more hit the wave, and in that neighborhood killed 70 people.
▼In honor of the victims, the place where there was a major village in the heart of the Colorado River, a monument. The Memorial "Victims of Colorado" is a bow at the base can read the names of the 132 Coloradans.
Shoken sorry if the story today, but we all have catastrophic side of the game.
Greetings!
Until next time.
From Argentina!
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