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  2. 2016–17 South American floods - Wikipedia

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    View a machine-translated version of the Spanish article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.

  3. 1957 Valencia flood - Wikipedia

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    A flood on 14 October 1957 in Valencia, Spain, [2] resulted in significant damage to property and caused the deaths of at least 81 people. In response to the tragedy, the Spanish government devised and enacted the Plan Sur, which rerouted the city's main river, the Turia.

  4. Los Alfaques disaster - Wikipedia

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    The campsite of Los Alfaques (Spanish for "the sandbanks") [A] is triangular-shaped and wedged between the beach and the N-340 coastal national road.It is about 2 km south of the nearest township, Sant Carles de la Ràpita, although it belongs to the territory of the Alcanar municipality.

  5. Alarming pattern: Climate disasters hit, and Spanish ... - AOL

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    More news on extreme weather events has given rise to more Spanish-language disinformation and misinformation on climate change that Latinos see, researchers say.

  6. 2024 Spanish floods - Wikipedia

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    Disastrous floods have been reported throughout the history of Valencia, from the 14th century up to the contemporary period. [5] The 1957 Valencia flood was caused by a three-day cold drop (Spanish: gota fría) (which usually leads to heavy autumn rains in Spain and France); it overflowed the banks of the Túria river and devastated the city of Valencia.

  7. Doñana disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Los Frailes mine is owned by Boliden-Apirsa (formerly Andaluza de Piritas, S.A.), the Spanish subsidiary of Boliden, and produces about 125,000 t (123,000 long tons; 138,000 short tons) of zinc and 2.9 million troy ounces (200,000 lb; 90,000 kg) of silver per year.

  8. 2024 Valencia residential complex fire - Wikipedia

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    This type of panel, while legal when installed during the 1996-2008 Spanish property bubble, was highly flammable and significantly contributed to the rapid spread of the fire. Esther Puchades, the vice president of the Valencia College of Industrial and Technical Engineers who had also inspected the building, said that the fire was the first ...

  9. Vega de Tera disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Vega de Tera disaster, (also known as the Ribadelago disaster [Catástrofe de Ribadelago]) was a flood that occurred on the early morning of 9 January 1959 in the Province of Zamora, Spain.