A serious situation was reported by Jhon Jairo Andrade Caicedo, mayor of the municipality of Sibundoy in Putumayo, after assuring with photographs and videos the imminent risk in which five neighborhoods, a school with more than 1,100 students, the cemetery, a monastery and the aqueduct that provides drinking water to the 20,000 inhabitants of this town.
According to the president, in dialogue with RCN Mundo, “the hill known as ‘Los Gemelos’ in the Campo Alegre villagehas us with great concern, because it threatens at any time to come and cause serious damage to the entire municipality, our concern is that the same thing happens that happened in Mocoa, because the calls we are making to the National Government are not having an echo, nor that support that we need”, assured Andrade Caicedo.
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Faced with the answers he has received so far from the National Unit for Risk Management, the mayor mentioned that the only thing they told him is that they did not have sufficient resources, “who no longer have machinery, that they do not have the necessary tools and that they are in a splicing stage, so they cannot help us in this area of the country.”
As a contingency plan, Mayor Jhon Jairo Andrade Caicedo, together with inhabitants of the municipality and with the support of machinery from the department of Putumayo, they have tried to remove more than 20,000 cubic meters of earth that have been slipping slowly, but that represent a “ticking time bomb”.
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According to the mayor of Sibundoy, since 2021 this problem has been exposed to the National Government, and they only helped them for three months with machinery and fuel, but there was no more help and the danger continues, according to the studies carried out in the area due to water springs that exist on this hill, added to a geologic fault.
And it is not only the situation of this hill that worries the inhabitants of Sibundoy, but also the recurrent overflows of the Putumayo River, which have affected at least 2,000 hectares of crops and are in danger of devastate about 300 head of cattle.
