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Colombia - Severe weather (IFRC, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 8 July 2025)

  • Heavy rainfall during the first rainy season of 2025 has triggered 1,769 weather-related events, including extensive floods and landslides, affecting Colombia, particularly the departments of Arauca, Caquetá, Putumayo, and Vichada, and causing fatalities, injuries, and widespread damage
  • According to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) as of 6 July, 130 people have died, 119 have been injured, and a total of 407,957 have been affected.
  • Over the next 48 hours, additional rainfall is forecast across Colombia, with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall on 10 July.