Drivers take note: parts of the Inter-American Highway are blocked because of damage caused by recent landslides and floods. Workers are trying to clear these areas but do not yet know when they will be back to normal, said Public Works and Transport Ministry (MOPT) spokesman Danny Villalobos.
One blocked area begins at kilometer 81 of the northern stretch of the Inter-American Highway near La Colina, between the northwestern coffee towns of San Ramón and Palmares. The road is blocked for about 21 kilometers.
On the southern stretch of the Inter-American Highway in the central Pacific, the road around kilometer 100 near Minas de Esparza, is also closed, as is kilometer 34, known as La Cangreja, on the road to the Southern Zone canton of Pérez Zeledón.
Floods also hit more than 20 communities in the northwestern Guanacaste province Sunday, including the cantons of Nandayure, Hojancha, Nicoya, Santa Cruz, Carrillo, La Cruz and Liberia. Residents whose homes were damaged headed to about 20 temporary shelters set up by the National Emergency Commission (CNE) in Guanacaste, as well as in Santa Ana, west of San José, where floods washed out several homes. |
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