Jimani River

Jimani River

The Jimani River (more properly known as the Solie River) [http://wwww.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SODA-5ZB3Y8?OpenDocument] is a river in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. On 24 May 2004, it overran its banks resulting in the death of over one thousand individuals, with hundreds more injured and homeless near the city of Jimani. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A53283-2004May24?language=printer] [http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PED/dor0504.htm] [http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article61988.ece]


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