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Guatemala - Floods

Map of Guatemala

Regional Team: LAC

Disaster Declared: 10/04/2005

Brief Description: In early October 2005, heavy and continuous rainfall associated with Hurricane Stan caused severe flooding and mudslides in 12 departments across western and southern Guatemala. The flooding and landslides associated with Hurricane Stan caused 669 deaths, directly affected more than 470,000 people, and damaged or destroyed nearly 35,000 homes.

On October 5, 2005, U.S. Ambassador James M. Derham issued a disaster declaration, and a OFDA team deployed to Guatemala to assess the impact of Hurricane Stan and identify and prioritize emergency needs. OFDA provided more than $4 million in humanitarian assistance to Guatemala including funding for helicopter support operations, local purchase of emergency relief supplies, and emergency health, water and sanitation, and shelter interventions.

FY2006

• 11-23-2005 FY2006 Hurricane Fact Sheet #3(66kb PDF)(map)
• 11-18-2005 Press Release
• 11-10-2005 FY2006 Hurricane Fact Sheet #2(Press Release
• 10-13-2005 Fact Sheet #2(48kb PDF)
• 10-11-2005 Press Release