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Since the weekend, thousands of people have had to leave their homes due to flooding.
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Two deaths and more than a thousand homeless people had left until Tuesday the floods in the central-southern zone of Chile, after several days of intense rains and winds.
President Gabriel Boric visited the Maule region on Monday, one of the most affected, and decreed a “state of catastrophe” from the O’Higgins region, near Santiago, to the Biobío region, some 500 kilometers south of the capital.
Since June, this area faces the heaviest rains in 30 yearsexacerbated by the El Niño phenomenon.
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The overflow of the Laja River has affected dozens of families in the city of Cabrero, in the Biobío region.
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The Fiscal de Talca stadium, in the Maule region, was flooded by the overflow of the Río Claro.
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According to the National Disaster Prevention and Response Service (Senapred), there are 26,000 people isolated, almost 34,000 evacuated and some 38,000 who were left without electricity.
“When you receive these messages, it’s not a joke, you must evacuate immediately,” Boric said, urging the population to abide by this type of instruction.
Experts anticipate that it will continue to rain in this mountainous area, which will increase the risk of landslides and further flooding.
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Winter in Chile has been rainier and hotter than usual.
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