Hydrometeorology event | City | Year | Damages |
Torrential rain | Fuengirola, Spain | 2003 | Flood in the Mijas municipality and collapse of Pacos’s UCA |
Intense rain | Fuengirola, Spain | 2004 | 1000 houses affected. The flood dragged 700 cars. |
Torrential rain and Manchágara River floods | Quito, Ecuador | 2008 | Collapsed Manchágara’s UCA and collapsed a piece the road distributor named “El Trebol” |
Structural failure | Mexicali Baja California, México | 2014 | The Independence Avenue’s UCA collapsed by structural failure |
Structural failure | Ambato, Ecuador | 2014 | A section of the UCA collapsed and caused the death of a person who had built their house over it. |
Structural damages from erosion and sinkholes | Zacatecas, México | 2014 | In the city’s historic center there are several important buildings like the Government’s Palace and the Cathedral which are among the hundreds of constructions built over the UCA. |
Intense rain | Toluca, México State | 2015 | A part Lerdo’s UCA collapsed (hundreds of people living in the federal areas of the river are at high risk). |
Torrential rain | Caranavi, Bolivia | 2016 | A part of Caranavi’s UCA collapsed and the eventual destruction of 11 houses. |
Torrential rain | Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México | 2016 | An apart of the San Roque’s UCA collapsed and six houses were damaged. Collapsed a house over the San Roque’s UCA too. |
Torrential rain | Granada, Spain | 2018 | The Darro river flooded the Correos building area, which provoked the slip of the emblematical building and generated erosion and sinkholes in the Darro’s UCA. |
Torrential rain | Las Paz, Bolivia | 2019 | Collapsed Sokeri’s UCA. The overflowing waters also caused the fall of a wall and the flooding of the parking lot in the Cumorah building. |
Torrential rain | Las Paz, Bolivia | 2019 | The Apumalla’s UCA was collapsed. The collapse damaged 5 houses. |