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2025 Bahía Blanca Floods
On 7 March 2025, Bahía Blanca and neighboring cities, in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, were flooded in the aftermath of unusually intense rainfall. The disaster caused serious material damage, thousands of evacuations, at least 17 deaths, and over 200 disappearances. Overview During the first week of March 2025, a series of intense storms began to develop in the southeastern region of the province of Buenos Aires. The Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (Argentina), National Meteorological Service had issued alerts for intense rainfall, but the magnitude of the event exceeded forecasts. In just a few hours, the city of Bahía Blanca received an estimated precipitation of , being the most devastating rainfall in Argentina since 1975 and over half of the average annual precipitation in the city of . 17 deaths have been reported as a result of the flooding, as well as at least 222 disappearances. Of that number of missing people, only three were not found by 12 March. As of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahía Blanca
Bahía Blanca (; English: ''White Bay''), colloquially referred to by its own local inhabitants as simply Bahía, is a city in the Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires province of Argentina, centered on the northwestern end of the eponymous Blanca Bay of the Argentine Sea. It is 4th largest city in the province, and the 16th largest in the country by metropolitan population. It is the seat of government of the Bahía Blanca Partido, with 336,574 inhabitants according to the . Bahía Blanca is the principal city in the Greater Bahía Blanca metropolitan area. The city has an important seaport with a depth of , kept constant upstream almost all along the length of the bay, where the Napostá Stream drains. ''Bahía Blanca'' means "White Bay". The name is due to the color of the salt covering the local soil surrounding the shores. The bay (which is an estuary) was seen by Ferdinand Magellan during his first circumnavigation of the world on the order of Charles I of Spain in 1520, lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
