Flood in Bolivia
Location
Bolivia
Date
2025-04-16
to 2025-05-06
Coordinates
Lat:
-16.5063698
Lon:
-68.1080335
Danger Scale
Disaster Details
Event summary
Flood can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.
| GDACS ID | FL 1103218 |
| Glide number: | FL-2025-000057-BOL |
| Death: | 114 |
| Displaced: | 6 |
| Countries: | Bolivia |
| From - To | 16 Apr - 06 May |
GDACS Score
- The humanitarian impact in Bolivia continues to worsen due to ongoing floods triggered by the rainy season, affecting most parts of the country.
- According to the Government of Bolivia, as of 26 April, the death toll has reached 58, with ten people still reported missing. Additionally, nearly 3.2 million people have been affected, and almost 10,000 houses have been damaged or destroyed.
- On 7 April, Bolivia requested assistance from the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) for flood rescue boats and equipment, as well as shelter, food, and energy-related items.
- On 11 April, the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) was activated to provide damage assessment mapping (). So far, 10 maps have been produced.
- Over the next 24 hours, moderate to very heavy rainfall is forecast across northern, central, western, and eastern Bolivia.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)
Estimated casualties (PAGER)
USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.
Exposed population
Data, images, links, services and documents
For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (37), (2), NASA (4), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),
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