According to the diagnostic report on the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOOA) in March, the sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies across…
Heavy rain that began in late February has resulted in several overflowing rivers and landslides in northern and central Bolivia. La Paz Department As a result of the heavy and…
Heavy rainfall recently caused flooding, landslides and power outages in some areas of Peru and Bolivia. NASA’s Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) measured that rainfall by using a merged…
Intense rain affected northern areas of Bolivia on Saturday 27 February 2016. A landslide in an area of La Paz has damaged several houses and forced almost 30 people from…
Intense rain and increasing river levels have been reported in Bolivia since 23 February, 2016. So far Bolivia’s rainy season, under the influence of this year’s strong El-Niño, has mostly…
The National Hidro-Meteorological Service in Bolivia (SENAMHI) have issued an orange alert for intense rain expected in La Paz, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz and Beni Departments over the next few days.…
INDECI, the National Institute of Civil Defence in Peru report that heavy rain and flooding in province El Dorado, San Martín Region has left 1 person dead and two people…
Around 25 families have been left homeless after rivers overflowed, destroying their homes in Guanay, Larecaja province, about 140 km north of the capital La Paz, Bolivia. A further 600…
While the recent rainy season (October 2014 to April 2015) in Bolivia wasn’t as severe as last year, it still left 32 people dead. 52 municipalities declared a state of…
Flooding has forced thousands from their homes in the department of Pando in the far north of Bolivia. Authorities say that 1,069 families have been affected. Heavy rainfall over the…
A government statement of 18 January 2015 said that 15 people have died in floods and heavy rain in Bolivia during January. So far, the rainy season (usually October to…
Areas of Bolivia and Peru have been seeing heavy rainfall for the last two weeks. Two people died after flooding in Santa Cruz, Bolivia during the first week of January…
The department of Santa Cruz in Bolivia has experienced heavy rainfall over the last few days, with 66 mm recorded in 24 hours on 05 January 2015 in San Ignacio…
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have announced a new forecasting method for predicting extreme floods in the Andes mountains which could allow for improved disaster preparedness and is…
In February this year, the department of Beni in northeastern Bolivia was decimated by floods. Other areas of Bolivia were also affected but the flooding in Beni was by far…
Oscar Cabrera, the Deputy Minister of the Bolivian Civil Defense, today gave some official figures regarding the ongoing flood disaster that Bolivia has endured since late December. According to his…
