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Floods

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  1. Floods • A certain surface is affected by them for an indeterminated period of time. • They can be seasonal or sudden.

  2. Natural Causes • Excesive rains. • Overflowing of rivers, lagoons, lakes,etc.

  3. Human causes • Bad agricultural practice • Bad infraestructure • Deforestation • Urban increase

  4. Most important consequences • Population mortality • Economic losses • Population evacuation • Infraestructure destruction

  5. Recent examples in Argentina • Flood in the northwest of Buenos Aires (1994) • Flood in Litoral (1998- around Corrientes province) By Agustín Melsa and Leandro Merelas.