2015 El Cambray Dos landslide

At 21:30 on 1 October 2015, heavy rains brought a hillside loose in the El Cambray II neighbourhood of Santa Catarina Pinula municipality, Guatemala, burying parts of the town across an area of roughly 160 linear metres. On 13 October the authorities declared a red alert in the neighbourhood, by which point the landslide had left 274 dead and 353 people missing.

Date
2015-10-01
Deaths (Wikipedia list, low end where it gives a range)
280
What the pin marks
The landslide, as the cited page positions it.
Where the position is published
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Guatemala_landslide

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: landslide, guatemala, santa catarina pinula, rainfall-triggered

Coordinates: 14.57647, -90.49606

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