The heavy rains registered during the early morning in the province of Malaga have caused the overflow of the Guadalhorce River and the Campanillas river, which has affected several neighborhoods of the municipalities of Malaga Capital and Cártama, which has forced even rescues by helicopter.
The Guadalhorce river has overwhelmed and forced the cut of the A-7057 road in Cártama, as well as the A-7054 road from this town to Santa Rosalía-Maqueda, although this route has later been reopened, the City Council has reported, EFE.
This same river has also overflowed in the neighborhood of Santa Amalia, Malaga capital, where security and emergency bodies work, helping some families to go out with their vehicles, according to the Consistory.
The sports center of Ciudad Jardín, in the capital, has been enabled as a point of affiliation and refuge, mainly due to the preventive eviction that took place yesterday from the island’s neighborhoods, the pearl and the hacienda.
In statements a Canal Sur Radio, collected by Europa press, The counselor of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification, Antonio Sanz, explained that the evolution of the channels of the Campanillas and Guadalhorce rivers during the early morning “has gone far beyond the forecasts” of the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet), since for example the Campanilla River has passed from blue level-without risk-to red-to red-at just hour and a half “.
The Campanillas river has also overwhelmed around 5:00 a.m., since the house of Casasola is at the limit of its capacity and has the stuck drain, so it is relieving all the water it has received from the rain.
A woman has had to be rescued by the Local Police in Campanillas because she had been trapped in her vehicle.
The educational activity in a dozen schools in Malaga has been suspended by the Junta de Andalucía, specifically eight of Cártama Station and two of Campanillas.
In the area of the Axarquía and the Serranía de Ronda, for the moment, the most outstanding incidents are due to detachments on roads, although there are no cut, according to the Diputación.
Andalusia accumulates early on Tuesday, March 18, a total of 19 rivers at a red level, 14 of them in the Guadalquivir basin
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