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    The document summarizes a tragedy known as "La Josefina" where two rivers overflowed in South America, forming an 800m long, 300m wide and 80m deep lagoon that destroyed roads, farms, crops and damaged a thermoelectric plant costing $25 million. The 20 million cubic meters of stone material that erupted erased the town of La Josefina from the map, where over 60 families lived.

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    Desastre de la Josefina (Exposición en Ingles)

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    The document summarizes a tragedy known as "La Josefina" where two rivers overflowed in South America, forming an 800m long, 300m wide and 80m deep lagoon that destroyed roads, farms, crops and damaged a thermoelectric plant costing $25 million. The 20 million cubic meters of stone material that erupted erased the town of La Josefina from the map, where over 60 families lived.

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    The Tragedy of "La Josefina": by Alexander Paute and Cristian Atehortua

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    The document summarizes a tragedy known as "La Josefina" where two rivers overflowed in South America, forming an 800m long, 300m wide and 80m deep lagoon that destroyed roads, farms, crops and damaged a thermoelectric plant costing $25 million. The 20 million cubic meters of stone material that erupted erased the town of La Josefina from the map, where over 60 families lived.

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    The Tragedy Of

    “La Josefina”
    BY ALEXANDER PAUTE AND CRISTIAN ATEHORTUA
    La Josefina, the second largest
    disaster in South America
    The water from these two rivers gave rise to the formation of a lagoon 800 meters long, 300
    meters wide and 80 meters deep in the La Josefina sector, near Cuenca.
     destroyed roads
     farms
     crops
     damaged a
    thermoelectric
    plant (25 million
    dolars)
    The town after the disaster

    The 20 million cubic meters


    of stone material (earth,
    stones and rocks) erased
    the town of La Josefina
    from the map, where more
    than 60 families lived
    La Josefina the village destroyed
    Today

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