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REGIONAL SUMMARY
The countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)2 are highly vulnerable to a range of natural hazards, including droughts, earthquakes, floods, forest fires, hurricanes, landslides, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. Periodic El Niño meteorological events and poor land use management frequently exacerbate the effects of existing hazards. In addition to staff based in Washington, D.C., USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) maintains a regional office in San José, Costa Rica, and a sub-regional office in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and is supported by a network of 20 disaster risk management specialists in 16 countries, as well as nearly 350 on-call local disaster relief consultants in 28 countries in the region.