On May 31, 2020, the General Directorate of Civil Protection, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DGPC) declared a nationwide red alert¹ based on the Special Meteorological Report No. 7, issued the same day by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), which reclassified tropical depression 2-E, which had begun on May 28, as storm “Amanda”. The rains continued with the arrival of storm “Cristobal” on June 1 and did not stop until June 7.

Initially, the General Directorate of Civil Protection, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DGPC) reported 30 deaths (20 men and 10 women) and more than 10,400 displaced people who were sheltered in at least 282 temporary collective sites. Subsequently, MARN² counted the total number of families affected by the storms at 29,968.