MEMORY OF A DISASTER: THE 1951 FLOOD IN CERVANTES DE ALVARADO

 

Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Awdur: Granados Jiménez, Rodrigo
Fformat: artículo original
Statws:Versión publicada
Dyddiad Cyhoeddi:2025
Disgrifiad:The impact of extreme natural events can be signicant on society, the economy and the environment and become part of the collective memory, especially if they have involved the loss of human life. Due to their greater scope of impact, natural events of geophysical origin, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have been historiographically the most studied in Costa Rica, while events of hydrological origin that involve the death of people, such as landslides or large heads of water, have been little studied, not remembered or forgotten. This essay addresses a disaster that occurred in 1951 in Costa Rica in the district of Cervantes, canton of Alvarado, province of Cartago, which caused the death of more than a dozen people, to study the causes of why some natural disasters risk being forgotten. Recovering the historical memory of these events enriches the understanding of the collective society-environment dynamic in the community where the events occurred and the sites of occurrence can become natural museums that remember the evidence of the event as legitimate places of memory for the inhabitants of a community.
Gwlad:Portal de Revistas UCR
Sefydliad:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Iaith:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/1974
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rdialogos/article/view/1974
Allweddair:memorization
disaster
flood
historical monument
history
memorizaci´on
desastre
inundación
monumento histórico
historia