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Tabasco still needs help

November 14, 2007 by cruton

At least 20,000 people were forced to seek emergency shelter.

Over 1,000,000 residents have been affected

Tabasco is a state of Mexico, located in the southeast of the country, has 1989 969 in habitants, divided into 24 578 km ². The capital is the city of Villahermosa.

The state runs on the coastal plain of the Gulf of Mexico, with the southern portion on the northern highlands of Chiapas. Bordered in the north, the Gulf of Mexico and the state of Campeche, on the south by the state of Chiapas, on the east by the state of Campeche and the Republic of Guatemala and on the west by the state of Veracruz.

The flood

The flood of Tabasco and Chiapas in 2007 was an event occurred from October 28 this year in the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas, because of historical floods in the rivers that run both entities. The greatest damage occurred in the capital tabasqueña, the city of Villahermosa and municipalities in the north end of Chiapas.

At least 20,000 people were forced to seek emergency shelter. Over 1,000,000 residents have been affected

Tabasco have evacuated hospitals, municipalities and settlements intact, no drinking water, electricity and telephones are failing, there are hundreds of missing and dead drowned because they did not want to leave his home and forcibly took the water, destroying vehicles and people, and still lack the worst, we have a dam near here in the limits of chiapas and Tabasco and is working to pull out 2000 meter cubic of water per second (Imagine that amount of water) which drops into the gulf of México, passing by the forces rivers of Tabasco, which all have been overwhelmed, I do not know if you conoscan villahemosa but this between two major rivers, grijalva and carrizal which are pouring all his cause to the city.