Coastal Hazards

Coastal erosion became a serious problem along the Caribbean coast of Colombia.
48.3% of the coast is experiencing erosion.
Because of the tectonic setting, the Pacific coast of Colombia is prone to many geological hazards.
Erosión al trends are 700 km long. “Low barrier island’s shorelines of the Pacific littoral and land losses are enhanced by factors as 30 cm regional sea level rises associated to the occurrence of El Niño.”
Marine erosion is threatening villages and worsening the socioeconomic conditions of most of the people.
Because of the will power to stay near the sea, the inhabitants has consisted of repetitive inshore and along shore directed relocations of villages. The people living here face great danger so they are told to move further inland instead of completely leaving and abandoning their area.
This all has caused repetitive relocation and economical loss.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964569115001775

Extreme Weather

In 2016 Hurricane Matthew killed one person and affected more than 18,000 families. The person who died was an 67 year old man who was swept away by a flash flood in an area where it had not rained in 4 years. The primary damage was done to homes and infrastructures as regions flooded and rivers overflowed the banks. Hurricane Matthew reached category 5. It was the strongest Atlantic hurricane to hit the coast of Colombia since Hurricane Felix in 2007.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/hurricane-matthew-drenches-coastal-colombia/2016/10/01/e34fa784-8803-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html?utm_term=.a916ee667725