The activation of more than 30 streams in the Pataz districtfor the heavy rains that have been falling, they have put in check the population of this Andean town in La Libertad.
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Due to this situation, the District Mayor of Pataz, second Villalobos, asked the Executive to declare his jurisdiction in emergency.
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“The situation is critical and we need the central government to declare our district emergency,” the Burgomaster told this newspaper via telephone.
Armas was in the Mama Lucha sector, about ten minutes from urban pataz, when he received our call. As indicated, the road was interrupted by the fall of a Huaico.
“We are waiting for heavy machinery to clear the road, but about 30 kilometers there is another interrupted section,” he said.
During the rains originated by Ciclón Yaku, in the summer of 2023, the District Municipality of Pataz identified 42 ravines in its jurisdiction. Of these, about 32 (76.19%) have been activated in recent days.
“The reason we ask is declared in emergency the District of Pataz is to have resources [económicos] and be able to hire machinery that allows us to improve communication chances ”, explained the mayor.
According to second weapons, until the end of this edition, no help from the Regional Government of Freedom was crystallized. “There has been communication with the COER (Regional Emergency Operations Center). Several reports have been made, more are missing, but we cannot cover everything because our district is too extensive and geographically complicated, ”he said.
Another concern of the Patacin mayor is the situation of the Chagual bridge, in the annex of the same name. Due to the increase in the waters of the Marañón River, the structure runs the risk of collapsing. If this happened, Pataz would be incommunicado with the province of Sánchez Carrión and the coast of La Libertad on that side of the region. “Through Nacional Provías, the bridge is to intervene. The idea is to raise 1.20 meters, but so far there is nothing concrete, ”he said.
Pataz District has an approximate population of 40 thousand inhabitants. For the mayor, the rains have put all their jurisdiction at risk. “We all affected directly or indirectly. What worries me the most is exhausting all the logistics we have to attend the emergency ”he said.
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Reasons
Given the frequent and intense rainfall that have been falling in the Ande of the region, the fishing biologist Carlos Bocanegra García said that “this season of the year is normal to rain in the mountains.”
Regarding the rainfall in Trujillo and other locations on the coast, he explained that it is transvase rains, “which are transferred by winds from the mountains to the coast.”
“We can’t talk about a [fenómeno] of El Niño. The sea temperature is even below normal “the specialist emphasized.
