During the 2011, The Corporation has advanced flood control works, mitigation and recovery of environmental damage, which amount to $ 33.879 millones, with resources from Corpoguajira and the National Calamity Fund, which benefit more than 90.000 people.

This was evidenced by the Early Warning System, through which the highest environmental authority and officials of the Red Cross (Seccional Guajira), detected that in recent days cooling values ​​of ocean surface water have been identified in some sectors of the central Pacific basin, which indicates that there will be an increase in rainfall in the Colombian Caribbean region during the next rainfall season.

“The rains will get heavier from the end of September and will last until December.”. “This second winter wave will be the strongest ever recorded in the region.”, Arcesius said Romero Pérez, General Manager Corpoguajira, who also explained that the entity has been working on risk management projects, advanced flood control and mitigation and recovery works for environmental damage in the period of 2007 a 2010, por valor de $13.572 millones, and that in the present period works are carried out that amount to $ 33.879 millones, with resources from Corpoguajira and the National Calamity Fund, which benefit more than 90.000 people.

According to information provided by the Red Cross, The rains will occur throughout the department, and the occurrence of gales is not ruled out, thunderstorms, landslides and sudden floods in rivers, especially those that come down from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serranía del Perijá.

All of the above, the Corporation and the Red Cross, recommend to the Local Committees for Disaster Prevention and Attention (CLOPADS) articulate the necessary actions to take preventive measures aimed at mitigating emergencies on the peninsula.