Marco Andrés Moreno Tapia,Juan Carlos Sulca Jota,Luis Alberto Céspedes Reyes,Grace Transmote Soto, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, Lima, mxrko@hotmail.com
Abstract
This study is focused on risk assessment in a rural community in the central Peruvian Andes, associated with heavy rains, which act as the main source for landslides, mud flows and floods. These phenomena are intensified during the peak of the rainy season, January to March in our study’s area. It analyzed an event that occurred in the Puquio river (intermittent river), which when it is activated often results in mud flows into the area, causing damage to roads and housing and putting at risk the lives of the community’s people. This situation worse for the absence of knowledge in the population about the impact of heavy rain on them and for the lack of access to information about this issues too. This study hopes to contribute in understanding these kinds of events to help mitigate their effects.
Keywords: Risk estimation, heavy rain, Peruvian Andes