Nevada puts three cities in Valle Grande on alert

Nevada Started on Saturday night An alert was issued to residents and producers in the department of Valle Grande. Temperatures in the Santa Cruz area have dropped significantly over the past 24 hours, with trees and bushes covering local roads with ice on Sunday.

“We are in peach and apple season, but potatoes are also planted in July, which “The cold weather could burn the works,” Ignacio Morón told EL DEBER.Mayor of Valle Grande.

Authorities He did not rule out that there would be about three to five days of frost starting on Monday, which could be “deadly”. For producers. “The frost will burn everything, it will be serious there,” Moron warned.

The cities worst affected by the snowfall were Pucara and Morro Moro. In Vallegrande, snow fell in high altitude areas, such as the Las Lomas area (about 30 kilometers from the Pucara highway).

“The snow in the south and Chilchi later turned into snow, which even caused the cables to fall. Some communities have no electricity,” said journalist Juan Pablo Mojica. Temperatures are expected to drop below zero in the early morning, with a maximum of around 10 degrees this Sunday.

Other municipalities in Santa Cruz province, such as Terrigal and Postrevalle, did not receive snow but had cooler temperatures.“First there was drought, and now there is snow. The situation here is complicated,” the Valle Grande mayor added.

The Santa Cruz Valley region is a vegetable and fruit producing area.mainly reaching markets in the capital, Santa Cruz, and the provinces of Cochabamba, Chuquisaca and La Paz.