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The flash flood of the Arás ravine

Biescas, Alto Gállego, Huesca

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The flash flood of the Arás ravine

Historical milestone · Biescas, Alto Gállego, Huesca

Image of Biescas, not of the place itself.

A sudden flood of the ravine swept ten-ton boulders in 1996 onto the alluvial fan where a campsite had been authorized: 87 people died, 27 of them children, and another 183 were injured in barely a few minutes.

7 de agosto de 1996

Photo: Jean Michel Etchecolonea (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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