Venezuela Floods and Landslides
15-16 December 1999

Photo by Matthew C. Larsen USGS

Satellite Products

Animations of 4 km Infrared Imagery

00 UTC to 23 UTC on 15 December 1999

00 UTC to 23 UTC on 16 December 1999

Animation of 8 km Water Vapor Imagery

00 UTC 15 December 1999 to 23 UTC 16 December 1999

Landsat image of debris flows provided by Dennis Krohn, USGS-CINDI

Satellite Derived Products

Satellite precipitation accumulation provided by USGS-CINDI

Topographic Information

Topographic map of Venezuela by COMET

Map of northern South America highlighting affected areas provided by USGS

Topographic map and rainfall amounts provided by USGS-CINDI

Topographic depiction of a river basin affected by the floods provided by Matthew C. Larsen of the USGS

Weather Charts

12 UTC on 16 December Geopotential Heights, wind and 850 mb pressure

Principal regional controls on Venezuela weather from 1-19 December 1999 provided by Pedro Delfin, Direccion General de Planificacion y Ordenamiento Ambiental, Ministerio del Ambiente y de los Recunsos Naturales de Venezuela

Photos of Damage provided by Matthew C. Larsen of the USGS

Flood and Landslide areas

Aerial photo of debris flows

Debris flow scars and alluvial fan

Urban damage from flood looking up a canyon

Severe damage downstream from narrow canyon

Home damage at Carmen de Uria

Hillside houses isolated by landslides

Buildings buried on university campus

Debris flow scars in El Avila National Park

Upstream and downstream view of flooded river

Drainage above Carabelleda

New channels cut by floods

Marina filled in with sediments carried by floods

Apartment building that partially colapsed due to flooding

Another view of the same apartment building

Damage on an alluvial fan

Massive transport of sediment in urban area

Links to other information

CIRA Flash Flood Laboratory

USGS Disaster Survey