Bolivia
[ Rainy Days | Mudslides ]
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With El Niņo warming the waters off the coast of South America, all the countries close by are hit hard. And Bolivia is no different. Heavy rains pounded the country all winter, causing mud slides and accidents (see below) and costing many lives.
When El Niņo brought lots of rain to Bolivia, the result was many mudslides. To find out what causes a mudslide, check out the Glossary. One mudslide that happened in Bolivia was in a gold-mining camp near the border of Peru, which killed around fifty people. Rescue crews recovered nineteen bodies by midafternoon on the day of the slide, and twenty-one remained inside. This tragic effect of El Niņo happened in the Mocotoro camp in the Tipuani mountains, about 130 miles northwest of the Bolivian capital, La Paz. Many more mudslides were triggered this year throughout the country because of El Niņo, the death tolls of Bolivia and Peru combined reaching three hundred people.
El Niņo is also the culprit that caused accidents. In sunny places like the west coast of the Americas, the drivers are often not as cautious because they aren't used to the rain. So, a rainy season such as the one brought this year by El Niņo causes many more accidents. One accident this year happened on a mountain road between Cochabamba and Oruro. On a foggy day, a bus crashed into a truck and plunged down a cliff, killing twenty-seven passengers and injuring thirty-one others. El Niņo has brought many conditions that aren't good for driving, and therefore there have been many more accidents.