Largest city in Ecuador is sinking! Severe flooding in Guayaquil due to Cyclone Yacu

Cyclone “Yaku“ from Peru influences heavy rains in Ecuador that leave floods. Intense rains registered in Guayaquil on the afternoon of this Wednesday, March 8, 2023, have caused serious flooding in several cities. According to the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (Inamhi), the heavy rains on the central and southern coast of the country are due to the influence of cyclone ’Yaku’ that is located off the coast of Peru. A strong and prolonged rain accompanied by an electrical storm, which began at five in the afternoon on Wednesday, and lasted until late at night, flooded dozens of sectors of the city of Guayaquil. The arrival of the precipitation, which coincided with the time when most citizens finish their workday and go home, made mobility too complicated, both vehicular and pedestrian. At approximately seven o’clock at night, the Guayaquil Citizen Security Corporation reported that there were more than twenty sectors with accumulation of water due to heav