Santo Domingo.– The Cyclonic season in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico Record at least two hurricanes every year that originate in the Cabo Verde archipelago, a set of islands located in front of the western coast of Africa.
These storms, formed from tropical waves from the Sahara desert, are known as Hurricanes of the Cape Verde.
They are usually extremely powerful, since they travel long distances over warm waters, which allows them to strengthen before reaching inhabited areas. For this reason, they often turn out to be the most destructive in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico and the east coast of the United States, where every year they cause important material and human damages.
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Emblematic examples of these phenomena include hurricanes David, Georges, Allen, Iván, Dean and Irma, all originated in the vicinity of Cabo Verde, from where they undertook their trajectory by the Atlantic Ocean.
David, for example, was a devastating hurricane who hit several Caribbean nations in 1979, including the Dominican Republic.
It is the only one in category 5 that has touched land in the country, although other hurricanes of that same intensity have passed near the Dominican territory.
The passage of Hurricane Georges is also remembered, which formed in Cabo Verde in 1998. Although it initially reached category 4, it degraded to category 3 when touching earth, leaving the Caribbean region severely in its path.
