The floods caused by torrential rains in recent hours in it Country Valencia and Castile-La Manchaand which have caused dozens of deaths, They are the greatest tragedy caused by rains so far this century and they are among the most serious in the last 75 years.
To find a disaster of similar proportions in the Valencian Country, we must go back to 1982, when the overflowing of the Júcar river in Valencia and the failure of the Tous dam caused 38 deaths and the evacuation of one hundred thousand people.
The one that is considered the biggest hydrological catastrophe in Spain It occurred on the night of September 25 to 26, 1962in the Catalan region of Valles Occidentalon which more than 200 liters per square meter fell in three hours, causing a thousand fatalities.
This is the chronological list of the greatest tragedies caused by the rains in Spain in the last 75 years:
October 13, 1957. More than eighty people die when the Turia River overflows as it passes through Valencia and 1,700 homes are destroyed. The flood determined the urban future of the city, which planned a new channel for the river with the aim of avoiding similar disasters.
January 9, 1959. The overflow of the Vega de Tera dam (Zamora) floods and devastates the town of Ribadelago, causing the death of 144 of its 532 inhabitants.
September 25, 1962. On the night of September 25 to 26, more than 200 liters per square meter fell in three hours in the Catalan region of Valles Occidentalcausing around 400 deaths, according to official figures at the time. Currently it is estimated that there were at least a thousand fatalities, half of them in Terrassa and Rubí, in the province of Barcelona. The absence of a census at the time prevented accurate accounting.
October 22, 1965. The overflow of the Torrejón el Rubio dam, in Cacerescauses about fifty deaths. The catastrophe took place during the construction works of the Torrejón-Tajo and Torrejón-Tiétar reservoirs.
October 19, 1973. The intense rains, with up to 600 liters per square meter, cause devastating floods in the provinces of Grenade, Murcia, Almeria and Alicante and left more than 150 dead, many of them in a market in Puerto Lumbreras (Murcia), as well as fifty missing.
October 20, 1982. The overflow of the Júcar River in Valencia and the failure of the Tous dam caused 38 deaths and the evacuation of one hundred thousand people.
August 1983. A total of 34 people die in Basque Country in the floods caused by torrential rains, which also affected Cantabria, Navarre, Burgos and Asturias. On the whole,
They caused six dozen deaths and enormous material damage.
August 7, 1996. A storm devastated the “Virgen de las Nieves” campsite, near Biescas, in the Huesca Pyreneesand left 87 dead and 200 injured, who were buried under a flood of water, stones and mud.
Until now, so far in the 21st century, the two most serious events of these characteristics had occurred in 2012 and 2018. Between September 28 and 29, 201213 people died (six in Murcia and seven in Andalusia), after the cold drop that crossed the provinces of Murcia, Andalusia and Valencia. Furthermore, in Gandia (Valencia), a tornado knocked down a ferris wheel and left 35 injured. On the other hand, the October 9, 2018 Torrential rains, up to 250 liters per square meter, caused several torrents to overflow in the Levante region of Mallorca and left 13 dead.
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