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Floods
• A certain surface is affected by excessive water for an indeterminated period of time.
• They can be seasonal or sudden.
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Natural Causes
• Excesive rains.
• Overflowing of rivers, lagoons,lakes,etc.
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Human causes
• Bad agricultural practice
• Bad infraestructure
• Deforestation
• Urban increase
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Most important consequences
• Population mortality
• Economic losses
• Population evacuation
• Infraestructure destruction
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Recent examples in Argentina
• Flood in the northwest of Buenos Aires (1994)
• Flood in Litoral (1998- around Corrientes province)
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