Tegucigalpa, the capital of Hondurashas been declared in high alert due to the damages caused by the rains that left the tropical storm Sarawhich left the Honduran territory this Sunday, leaving behind around 111,000 people affected nationwide, 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 by four meters, several important bridges that communicate it with the twin city of Comayagüela, were closed by the Municipal Mayor’s Office.
Hundreds of people have been evacuated during the last two days as a result of the rains that have been lashing the entire country since Thursday Central America, with heavier rainfall throughout the Caribbean region, which is the most productive in terms of agriculture, industry and commerce.
In Tegucigalpa, also crossed by geological faults, some families were forced by rescuers to abandon their modest homes, in neighborhoods located on the banks of rivers and streams that were flooded.
The flooding of the Choluteca riverwhich is fed by other tributaries in the central region and flows into the Gulf of Fonseca (Pacific), is also having repercussions in southern Honduras. flooding low-lying areasreported the Secretariat of Risk Management and National Contingencies (Copeco).
The south of Honduras, which includes the departments of Choluteca, bordering Nicaragua, and Valle, with El Salvador, were declared in red alert (mandatory evacuation) due to the rise 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 are maintained in the 18 departments of the country that make up the Honduran territory.
Six other departments remain in red alert in the Caribbean, to which four are in yellow and six in green.
Copeco authorities expect that on Monday afternoon the rains will begin to diminish and the soil begins to dry out in some regions of the Caribbean where rainfall has already ceased.
It is also expected that the level of large rivers that originate in the west and flow into the Caribbean, such as the Ulua and Chamelecon, which in the last two days have flooded low-lying and fertile parts of the north of the country, will drop.
The civil protection agency had registered until 18:00 local time this Sunday (01:00 Monday in Spain), nationwide, at least 110,889 people affected, 10,326 families affected, 8,416 evacuated and 5,057 sheltered.
Storm Sara has also left so far 3,946 homes damaged, 2,534 destroyed. and 209 communities cut off from communication, in addition to dozens of roads, bridges, aqueducts, sewage, electricity, agricultural, livestock, industrial and tourist production areas, among others, which have also suffered damage.
Of the country’s 18 departments, 15 have been affected by tropical storm Sara, which was downgraded to a tropical depression when it made landfall in Belize, after having formed on the 14th off the coast of Central America.