Armero
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Armero is a municipality in the Tolima Department, Colombia. According to the National Department of Statistics of Colombia, 12,852 lived in the town in 2005. Its median temperature is 27 °C. It was f
Rural area in the municipality of Armero
Omayra Sánchez
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Omayra Sánchez Garzón was a Colombian girl trapped and killed by a landslide when she was 13 years old.
Armero
…time. The incident became known as the Armero tragedy. While the destruction of the town made world news in its own right, the best known victim was Omayra Sánchez, a young girl who died after being trapped by water and concrete up to her neck for three days. After this event, the town of Guayabal was assigned as…
Frank Fournier's photograph of Sánchez
Formerly in the center of this area, the town of Armero was buried by thick volcanic mudflows in 1985.