Extreme Weather: heavy rains affect states in Legal Amazon

Extreme climate events occurring in states of the Legal Amazon region have affected more than 40,000 people. The Acre River reached 16.84 meters in the state capital, Rio Branco, almost three meters above its overflow level, which is 14 meters, leaving 2 thousand people homeless and about 3,800 displaced.

In Rondônia, the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) gave the National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples (FUNAI) a deadline of 72 hours to inform what measures have been adopted to help the Karipuna indigenous people, who have been homeless for more than a week after the Jaci Paraná River overflowed and flooded a large part of the Karipuna Indigenous Land.