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Complete coastal towns were washed away by the mud slides. Horses were used for transport after the floods.
 State of Vargas, (Caribbean Coast) Venezuela. The only building left standing after the mud slides in a once heavily populated and built-up area. All that remains of Carmen de Uria, once a busy town, flattened by the mud slides and floods.
Purified drinking water being delivered to people returning to their homes. La Guaira, Venezuela, once a 3 story home, now filled with mud and rocks
Venezuelan Floods 1999: One Year Later
In December 1999, unrelenting rain caused flash flooding and mud slides along the Caribbean coast of Venezuela. An estimated 30,000 people were killed and over 100,000 people were left homeless.
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