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Some Andean and Amazon regions of Ecuador have been hit by heavy rains in recent hours, affecting several roads in the country, but no fatalities have been reported so far, the Integrated Security Service (ECU) reported on Sunday (911).
The entity responsible for coordinating the national emergency response reported flooding in parts of Changbo and Penipe states in the Chimborazo department in the country’s central Andes.
Likewise, rains caused the Changbo River to overflow, closing the road connecting the town of Penipe to the town of Baños de Aguasanta at the foot of the Tungurahua volcano.
As a result, about 55 people from the communities of Guzo and Penipe were also evacuated, fearing that the storm could affect their homes.
Also in Chimborazo province, a state of alert was declared due to the overflowing of the Puela River, causing concern in the communities of Palitava and Penipe.
In the same province, ECU-911 reported the presence of snow on the road that connects the cities of Riobamba and Guaranda, a section of road that is the entrance to the snow-covered Chimborazo refuge, the highest mountain in Ecuador, with a height of 6,263 meters.
The source reported on his X network account that “vehicles on the Riobamba-Guaranda road are impassable due to snow”.
In Napo, in the Amazon province of east-central Ecuador, a landslide in the El Salado region forced the closure of the highway connecting the town of Chaco to the city of Lago Agrio, capital of the neighboring Sucum district.
Personnel and machinery from the Ministry of Transport and Public Works, the police and the National Risk Management Secretariat have been dispatched to the site to carry out road repair work.
Another landslide in the city of Quijos also led to the complete closure of the Cuyuha-Quijos road, with the resources of the Public Works Department and the police being diverted, with police personnel ruling out the presence of those affected.
ECU-911 also reported that the Cuenca-Girón highway in the Andean province of Azuay (South) and the Guarumares-Mendez road, which connects that southern jurisdiction to the Amazonian province of Morona Santiago, were closed.
In Morona Santiago, to be precise, the road connecting its capital, Macas, and the Andean city of Riobamba, capital of the Chimborazo department, was reportedly closed due to an avalanche in the Sunak region.
The highway between Macas and Puyo (capital of the Amazonian department of Pastaza) was also declared closed due to flooding of the Upano River, and the region built an alternative crossing between the towns of Seville and Serpa.
According to the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (Inamhi), “rainfall of varying intensities was recorded in most parts of the country” on Sunday morning, although the agency “expects the rain to dissipate in the next few hours.”
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