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SAN SALVADOR, Jan 11 2021 (IPS) - Throughout its history, San Salvador has faced the danger of landslides – mud and rocks that slide down the slopes of the volcano at whose feet the city was founded in 1525. The soil on these extremely steep slopes fails to absorb all the rainwater and, as in a snowball effect, the water gradually loosens up sections of land until producing mudslides that wreak death and destruction in the capital of El Salvador and nearby cities and suburbs. In September 1982, a landslide claimed 500 lives in the Montebello residential development, northwest of the capita...

The city of San Salvador was built at the foot of the volcano of the same name, and the risk of landslides that cause tragedies is always present, such as the one that occurred in September 1982, in which some 500 people died in the capital of El Salvador. Turning it into a "sponge city" is the new initiative to reduce the impact of these phenomena. CREDIT: Edgardo Ayala/IPS SAN SALVADOR, Dec 18 2020 (IPS) - The San Salvador volcano is a gift of nature for the inhabitants of the capital who live at its foot, a gigantic green lung that gives them oxygen and fresh air. But it is also a curse.

The city of San Salvador was built at the foot of the volcano of the same name, and the risk of landslides that cause tragedies is always present, such as the one that occurred in September 1982, in which some 500 people died in the capital of El Salvador. Turning it into a "sponge city" is the new initiative to reduce the impact of these phenomena. CREDIT: Edgardo Ayala/IPS SAN SALVADOR, Dec 18 2020 (IPS) - The San Salvador volcano is a gift of nature for the inhabitants of the capital who live at its foot, a gigantic green lung that gives them oxygen and fresh air. But it is also a curse.