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2015 Northern Chile floods and mudflow

Index 2015 Northern Chile floods and mudflow

The 2015 Northern Chile floods were a series of mudflows that affected much of northern Chile, product of flash floods from different rivers due to unseasonal heavy rains in the area, causing severe damage in several towns of the Antofagasta, Atacama and Coquimbo regions. [1]

11 relations: Antofagasta Region, Atacama Desert, Atacama Region, Chile, Chilean peso, Cold front, Coquimbo Region, Flash flood, Michelle Bachelet, Mudflow, ONEMI.

Antofagasta Region

The Antofagasta Region (Región de Antofagasta.) is one of Chile's fifteen first-order administrative divisions.

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Atacama Desert

The Atacama Desert (Desierto de Atacama) is a plateau in South America (primarily in Chile), covering a 1000-km (600-mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains.

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Atacama Region

The Atacama Region (III Región de Atacama) is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Chilean peso

The peso is the currency of Chile.

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Cold front

A cold front is the leading edge of a cooler mass of air, replacing at ground level a warmer mass of air, which lies within a fairly sharp surface trough of low pressure.

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Coquimbo Region

The Coquimbo Region (IV Región de Coquimbo) is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.

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Flash flood

A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins.

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Michelle Bachelet

Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who was the President of Chile twice, from 2006 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018, the first woman in her country to occupy this position.

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Mudflow

A mudflow or mud flow is a form of mass wasting involving "very rapid to extremely rapid surging flow" of debris that has become partially or fully liquified by the addition of significant amounts of water to the source material.

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ONEMI

ONEMI or Oficina Nacional de Emergencia del Ministerio del Interior (National Office of Emergency of the Interior Ministry) is a Chilean government agency dedicated to the prevention, organization, coordination and information relative to natural disasters.

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2015 northern Chile floods, Temporal of northern Chile 2015.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Northern_Chile_floods_and_mudflow

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