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The hurricane strengthened Monday in the warm waters of the Caribbean to reach category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale of five, with maximum sustained winds of 210 km / h, he specified the National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the United States.
Eta, which is traveling at 15 km / h, is expected to toque land early Tuesday in the North Caribbean of Nicaragua, inhabited by indigenous and Afro-descendant populations.
About 100,000 people live in Bilwi and the adjacent communities located on the shores of the Caribbean Sea., mostly indigenous people scattered in communities that could be affected by the hurricane, including Tuapí, Krukira, Sandy Bay, Cabo Gracias a Dios.
“We have already managed to evacuate more than 3,000 families with the active participation of our army from the communities”Caribbean, such as Prinzapolka and the Miskitos Cays, said the vice president and official spokesperson of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo.
Both Nicaragua and Honduras, the countries with the highest risk, decreed a red alert before the arrival of the cyclone. Also, San Andrés, for its part, ordered the closure of its beaches until further notice, as published by El Heraldo.
The island authorities also put a curfew until this Tuesday and they recommended to the inhabitants stay home and be attentive to the indications, explains the Barranquilla newspaper.
Although Ideam predicts that Eta will not hit San Andrés directly, they did indicate that your approach to the islands it will generate heavy rains, winds, increased waves and thunderstorms, details the same newspaper.
The NHC cautioned that “catastrophic winds, flash floods and landslides are expected in parts of Central America”.
Eta already caused heavy rains on Sunday in Costa Rica, where the National Emergency Commission preventively displaced people from the South Pacific.
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