Mena traffic jam
The Mena-Stau (Spanish: Tranque Mena ) was a reservoir on the outskirts of Valparaíso in Chile. The dam was an earth dam 17 m high and 200 m long. It was bought by a private person named Nicolás Mena for his own water supply, u. a. for a brewery. The reservoir had a storage capacity of 100,000 cubic meters and was located at a height of 270 meters above sea level.
On August 11, 1888, the dam broke and sent a tidal wave of water, mud and stones into the city, killing around 100 people, according to various sources. In the literature, structural failure is given as the reason for failure. The reservoir was between the hills (Cerros) of San Juan de Dios and Yungay. The masses of water rolled through the streets of Yungay, Bellavista and Condell.
See also
Web links
- TEMPORAL CHILE 1888 accessed on August 14, 2012
- VALPARAISO Y SU HISTORIA accessed on August 14, 2012
- Del cerro Bellavista hasta la calle Lastra / El Desastre del tranque Mena ( Memento from April 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file 286 kB) accessed on August 14, 2012
- Valparaíso, el mayor de los desastres en 50 años: Bajo el sino de la catástrofe accessed on August 14, 2012
Footnotes
- ^ A b Patrick McCully, Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams, 2001
- ↑ Las wear dias que su identidad marcaron
- ↑ Las wear dias que su identidad marcaron
Coordinates: 33 ° 3 ′ 30 ″ S , 71 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ W.