Cuenca, Ecuador: Rains impacting homes and road blockages

eluniverso.com/Sandra Ochoa (machine translated) reported…. Increased flows in rivers and streams, water access to homes and small landslides in several interparroquial roads are reported from 02:30 on Friday, when rains intensified in Cuenca.

One of the sectors most affected is the north of the city, with the blockade of the road that leads to the Sinincay parish, at Miraflores, where at least two mudslides and mud blocked the road.

In one of the affected areas at least three houses at risk have been identified. In addition, a road is blocked by the fall of a eucalyptus tree.

Also on the way to the Czech and Chiquinta parishes, at the height of Patamarca, several houses were flooded. Relief agencies supported drainage and mitigation works in all affected sectors. Read Full Article

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