La Mana, Cotopaxi
An improvised tarabita is used to cross the Quindigua river, where the Magdalena bridge used to be. In their desperation, residents of the Guasaganda parish, La Maná canton, Cotopaxi, use this alternative to try to get supplies when they are cut off.
There are dozens of families from Cotopaxi towns that were isolated by the rising rivers that have caused overflows and that have destroyed homes.
Edison Pila, a resident of La Magdalena, assured that the same panorama that exists where the Magdalena bridge used to be is upriver because the great flow that increased on Sunday affected three other similar structures.
“The situation is very complicated because we have to cross through an improvised tarabita for which we risk our lives, for that reason we urgently ask the authorities for help,” he said.
The residents request, for now, the provision of a metal cable that provides a little more security in the passage of products from the area such as milk, which is the main sustenance.
Destruction left by the overflow of rivers in Cotopaxi will lead to the relocation of dozens of families
But the request is for them to also be served with food because by not being able to enter or leave easily, these have begun to be scarce in the houses. There are about 200 people from 80 families who require urgent help. He commented that the river is unstable because sometimes the flow drops, but then increases.
Soldiers with personnel from the Fire Department have tried to bring rations to isolated populations.
“We are practically abandoned because we do not have water or electricity, food is beginning to be scarce and we also need medicine because there are vulnerable groups, as well as pregnant mothers who require care, in addition to the tarabita that was made with a plastic-type rope, we are going to use it until let it break,” he said.
Jorge Corrales, president of Guasaganda, reported that three communities were affected in the parish: Quindigua, Malqui and La Playa, where seventeen houses were washed away by the river.
Losses may be greater, as there are places where help cannot reach. Three carriage bridges and the same number of culverts were also destroyed.
He stated that as a parish government the emergency was declared and that they are seeking to build alternate steps with safe tarabitas until they get the budget and machinery to enable the road to Chugchilán (Sigchos).
In Pucayacu, in La Maná, the affected areas are cleaned and the Quindigua River is dredged; other towns in Cotopaxi remain incommunicado
He commented that with the safer tarabitas that the population aspires to build, they will have the possibility of making transfers because on the sides of the river there are vehicles with which mobility can be facilitated, in addition to managing bailey bridges with the support of the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works and the municipality of La Maná.
Corrales stated that in the Quindigua compound, people survived from the marketing of milk and the sale of cattle for meat, as well as beans, but that being 100% incommunicado, they have not been able to get these products to the markets. “It’s the only source of income they had,” he said.
He expressed that the concern was to enter food because the residents of this area generally provided themselves between Wednesday and Thursday, which was expected to be done with the help of members of the Army and the Fire Department, because overflights could not even be made due to the poor conditions. of the weather. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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