Strong floods affect the coast of Baracoa

Powerfulfloods are affecting the coastline of the municipality and the city ofBaracoa, inGuantanamo, according to local pro-government media and journalists.

“Immense waves on the Baracoa boardwalk,” reported this Thursday inFacebook the local radio journalist, Galina Arcia Laffita.

The journalist Mirna Rodríguez Zúñiga also spreads images inFacebook of the apartments affected in the city of Baracoa due to flooding in areas near the boardwalk.

For his part, journalist Lázaro Manuel Alonso shares in hisred social images of coastal flooding in that city in the east of the island.

The profile ofFacebook The local channel Primada Visión broadcasts a video of the storm surge that affects that town and explains that the director of the Risk Management Center in Baracoa, Alexis Guilarte Fuentes, said that these coastal floods are caused by the influence of an anticyclone that interacts with the remains of the last cold front and low pressures, in addition to the northwest winds that generate trains of waves.

Likewise, he warned that these conditions may persist until next Saturday.

At the beginning of January, also in that city there were reportsstrong flooding in the town of Playa-Turey, after the Macaguanigua river overflows.

The waters of the river penetrated several houses in the town, he noted inFacebook On that occasion the official newspaperWe will win, after quoting Radio Baracoa journalist, Mirna Rodríguez.

Also in the report they pointed out that in addition to the flooding of homes, the waters affected mattresses, household appliances and other goods.

Flooding due to rain in Baracoa is usually frequent because it is considered the territory where it rains the most on the island.

In March 2021, heavy rains caused flooding in homes located in the low areas of that town in eastern Cuba.

The rains caused the Miel River to flood, and its waters flooded part of the Bohorque area on that occasion.

Similar situation occurred in November 2020, after the passage of a cold front that caused flooding in several areas of that city.