Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, has been declared in high alert due to the damage caused by the rains left by tropical storm Sara, which this Sunday left Honduran territory leaving around 111,000 people affected at the national level, according to official reports.
As a result of the flooding of the rivers that cross the Honduran capital, mainly the Choluteca, which increased its flow four meters, several important bridges that connect it with the twin city of Comayagüela, were closed by the Municipal Mayor’s Office.
Hundreds of people have been evacuated in the last two days as a result of the rains that have hit the entire country since Thursday Central American, with greater rainfall throughout the Caribbean region, which is the most productive in agricultural, industrial and commercial matters.
In Tegucigalpa, also crossed by geological faults, some families were forced by lifeguards to abandon their modest homes, in neighborhoods located on the banks of rivers and streams that were flooded.
The flooding of the Choluteca Riverto which other tributaries in the central region flow and which flows into the Gulf of Fonseca (Pacific), is also having repercussions in southern Honduras flooding lower partsreported the Secretariat of National Risk and Contingency Management (Copeco).
The south of Honduras, which is made up of the departments of Choluteca, bordering Nicaragua, and Valle, with El Salvador, were declared on red alert (mandatory evacuation) due to the increase in the flow of rivers that cross it such as the Choluteca, Goascorán and Nacaóme. .
Although Storm Sara, which also forced the closure of four international airports, has already left the country, red, yellow and green alerts remain in the 18 departments that make up the Honduran territory.
Six other departments remain on red alert in the Caribbean, in addition to four on yellow and six on green.
Copeco authorities hope that on Monday afternoon the rains begin to decrease The soil is already drying out in some regions of the Caribbean where rainfall has already stopped.
It is also expected that the level of mighty rivers that originate in the west and flow into the Caribbean such as the Ulúa and the Chamelecón, which in the last two days have flooded low and fertile parts of the north of the country, will decrease.
As of 6:00 p.m. local time this Sunday (1:00 a.m. Monday in Spain), the civil protection body had registered at least 110,889 affected people, 10,326 affected families, 8,416 evacuated and 5,057 sheltered at the national level.
Storm Sara has also left so far 3,946 homes damaged, 2,534 destroyed and 209 cut-off communities, to which are added dozens of roads, bridges, aqueduct, sewage, electrical services, agricultural, livestock, industrial and tourist productive areas, among others, that have also suffered damage.
Of the 18 departments of the country, 15 have been affected by Tropical Storm Sara, which was downgraded to a tropical depression upon making landfall in Belize, after having formed on the 14th off the coast of Central America.
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