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Dominical, Uvita and Ojochal are decapitated
Just shortly before high season is set to begin, the Southern Zone was pounded by a week of steady downpouring of rain that flooded homes, severed roadways and even claimed lives throughout the country.
The costanera highway that runs along the Pacific coast has been severely damaged and in some instances the roadway has all but been reduced to gapping hole dropping down to the sea below. As you can see from these photos taken from the Costanera Sur between Uvita and Ojochal. This is apparently the same for the other direction towards Manuel Antonio whereas they were forced to close the road connecting the park to Quepos over the mountainside for fear of another, more massive, landslide in to Quepos which has many people residing in the vicinity.
There was a four day period last week where Costa Rica received the average rainfall for all of November in that period and severely damaged most of the country and approximately 25% of all paved roads being non-passable or suffering substantial damages.
According to the local news, the Southern and Central Pacific regions of the country suffered the most damages overall whereas the Central Valley saw the most deaths and injuries due to the heavy rains and resulting disasters. Fortunately for people in Dominical, the only inconvenience they suffered was being cutoff from going anywhere for a few days.
Aid is beginning to arrive in Costa Rica but the total tally on what it will cost to recover are still being calculated. Airplanes from Guatemala, Panama and Colombia arrived in San José with humanitarian aid, the Comision Nacional de Emeregencias (CNE) - National Emergency Commission - said in a report. Both the Central and Southern Pacific regions have remained on Red Alert (highest level) while the Caribbean is on a Green Alert (first level).
