Central America is a region of the planet favored by a climate extremely nice and a vegetation abundant and exotic that added to its beaches imposing makes it a site of irresistible beauty. But unfortunately, he must live with a latent and rarely foreseeable danger such as hurricanes
There are many that the area has suffered in the last thirty years and it would suffice to mention the Hurricane Ivan, Hurricane Charley and tropical storm jeanne all in 2004 and also the Hurricanes Emilly, Denis and Katrina, all three in 2005.
But without a doubt the one Central America still do not forget is the Hurricane Mitch, which took place between October 22 and November 5, 1998. A tropical cyclone that formed over the Atlantic Ocean and in a short time it reached category five, which is the one conferred on phenomena with the greatest destructive potential and with a maximum wind speed of about three hundred kilometers per hour.
The problems caused by these terrible manifestations of the nature; They are not reduced to the damage caused by tremendously fast winds, but to this we must add the waves of impressive heights that originate and are particularly harmful in coastal areas as well as the rains that they generate with the low pressure that drag them to where they are. move.
Hurricane Mitch caused the flooding of the Choluteca River that reached six times its normal width, caused a mudslide in Nicaragua that buried three thousand people, generated very serious losses for agriculture and was the propitious agent for the appearance of new outbreaks of dengue, malaria, leptospirosis and cholera.
The nations hardest hit were Honduras and Nicaragua but also went through Guatemala, Yucatan peninsula and part of the state of Florida. Official data recognize eleven thousand dead and eight thousand disappeared due to the catastrophe and they estimate material losses in billions of dollars.