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.N .- More than a thousand families are affected by the floods that occurred in the Amazon, due to the flooding of the Orinoco and its tributaries. According to the Amazonas Civil Protection, there are 35 affected areas and their inhabitants have been moved to shelters and shelters.
Sidney Rodríguez Regional Director of Civil Protection, said that they have moved 5,213 people into shelters. In Puerto Ayacucho, 300 families were evicted and displaced
. The flooded municipalities are: Atabapo, 80%, Atures and Autana. They will establish an air and river bridge for the transfer of Atabapo to Puerto Ayacucho. The governor of Amazonas, Miguel Rodríguez reported that there are six active shelters in Atures where they serve 7 families.
The regional government has 13 shelters, providing support to six families. They have 8 shelters in reserve, "able to serve potential displaced people," he said. The former governor Liborio Guarulla said in his Twitter account that the levels of the Atabapo, Guaviare, Cunucunuma, Sipapo and Meta rivers have increased during the rainy season. They assume "that the flood of the Orinoco will exceed that of the year 1976", when it will reach 53.66 meters above sea level.
According to the Ministry of the 39; Ecosocialism and Water, the Orinoco arrived Friday at 53.38 meters 53.58 m above the 52-meter overflow level, which generated the greatest impact.
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