Heavy downpours continue to ravage Colombia, prompting Interior Minister, Fabio Valencia Cossio to call on local and regional authorities to implement contingency plans to deal with the torrential weather, reports…
Almost 30,000 Colombians have been affected by the rainy season so far this year, with reports of twelve dead and 87 injured by adverse weather in April. Vice Minister for…
Twenty-four homes in the Bogota neighborhood of Caracoli were evacuated on Thursday, due to the danger that ongoing heavy rains would cause more landslides in the area, reports Colombian media.…
At least four people are trapped beneath rubble in Colombian capital Bogota, after heavy rain caused landslides in the city’s Ciudad Bolivar neighborhood on Thursday, reports Colombian media. According to…
Colombia’s record-breaking rains have now claimed six lives, with over 8,600 people affected by the country’s extreme weather conditions, EFE reported Thursday. According to the latest statistics from Colombia’s national…
With Colombia’s winter in full force, record-breaking rainfall continues to drench the country, leaving three people dead in the Huila and Cundinamarca departments. In the central department of Cundinamarca, in…
One week into the rainy season and the drought that baked Colombia has has well and truly broken, with record rainfalls recorded around the Andean nation, reports Caracol Radio. Colombia’s…
Hailstorms, gale force winds and heavy rains have dampened Easter celebrations in the central Colombian department of Risaralda. Belen de Umbria, in the west of Risaralda has been worst hit,…
Colombian authorities reported Wednesday that there are 35 wild fires ravaging the countryside around Colombia and predicted the drought will last longer than previously expected. The Colombian Office for the…