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		The Dominican Republic National Emergency Commission has declared a red alert in the region around Jimaní, the capital of the province of Independencia, and a yellow alert for the rest of the country.
		The rising waters from the Jimaní River swept away homes, cut utility lines and prevented rescuers from reaching the hardest-hit regions.
		Jimani belongs to the “Lago Enriquillo” micronetwork, made up of 12 UNAPs and the Jimani Hospital (40 beds) and the La Descubierta Hospital (20 beds—a hospital that currently has no medical specialists available).
	www.paho.org /English/DD/PED/dor0504.htm (984 words)

	Rivers of the Dominican Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Yaque Del Norte River is the longest river in the Dominican Republic.
		The Yaque del Sur River is a river in the southwestern Dominican Republic.
		The Yuna River is in the Dominican Republic.
	www.shortopedia.com /R/I/Rivers_of_the_Dominican_Republic (311 words)

	Dominican Republic: the rains at the end of may 2004
		The overflowing of the banks of the river Blanco in Jimaní caused the death of 400 people in the Dominican Republic and 2000 in Haiti, and many people were wounded or even missed.
		The quarter Los Mina in consequence of the swollen river Ozama, Santo Domingo.
		The zone around the course of the river Yuna (Duarte, Sánchez Ramírez) is still receiving a lot of water from the storage lakes.
	home.tiscali.nl /t794614/drlluviaseng.htm (411 words)

	Flooding kills more than 600 people - @forums
		Jimani is inhabited mostly by Haitian migrants who work as vendors and sugar cane cutters, trying to make a better life.
		JIMANI, Dominican Republic (CNN) -- More than 500 people have died in flooding on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, shared by the nations of Haiti and Dominican Republic, and hundreds more are missing, according to the International Committee for the Red Cross.
		In the Dominican border town of Jimani, Leonardo Novas, 28, told the AP that he awoke to the screams of his infant son as water rose through his house.
	www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?p=3456875 (1968 words)

	FirstCoast News.com - Print Article
		JIMANI, Dominican Republic (AP) -- Emergency workers dumped scores of mud-caked corpses into a mass grave Tuesday as the reported death toll from flooding of rain-swollen rivers in the Dominican Republic and Haiti rose to at least 245.
		Frantic relatives used their bare hands to dig through the mud for loved ones missing after Monday's heavy rains lashed the island of Hispaniola, which is shared by the two countries.
		At least 130 corpses were counted in the Dominican town of Jimani, near the border with Haiti, after shacks in the nearby village of Malpaso were swept away by flooding along the Solie River.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=19116 (714 words)

	WEA-Caribbean-Storms, 2nd Writethru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		JIMANI, Dominican Republic (AP) - Floods unleashed by torrential rains swept through a Dominican Republic farming town, killing about 100 people and leaving 150 others missing, official said Monday.
		Bodies caked with mud were piled in a hospital's makeshift morgue in the western town of Jimani near the Haitian border.
		She said her daughter's house was swept away by the ferocious Solie River, which tore through the neighbourhood in the western town near the Caribbean country's border with Haiti.
	www.cp.org /premium/ONLINE/member/World/040525/w052503A.html (294 words)

	Britannicaindia.com: Britannica Browse
		The town lies just west of the Jhelum River (there bridged by both road and rail) and is connected by...
		It lies on the south bank of the Benue River, and on the highway between Zing and Girei.
		It is situated on the west bank of the Nile River, which encroached considerably on the town in the...
	www.britannicaindia.com /britannica_browse/j/j7.html (1738 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Wall of mud wipes out Caribbean town
		Rescue workers and international aid poured into Jimani, on the border with Haiti, where the storm killed hundreds, along the river that Dominicans call Blanco and the Haitians call Soleil.
		Residents of Jimani are digging bodies out of the mud, and if no one reclaims them, reburying them in common graves.
		Jimani is 280 kilometers west of Santo Domingo, near border with Haiti.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/325591.htm (405 words)

	kamchatka peninsula - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Between the peninsula and the Pacific Ocean runs the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench with a depth of 10,500 m.
		The central valley and the Kamchatka River are flanked by large volcanic ranges, containing around 160 volcanoes, 29 of them still active.
		The highest is Klyuchevskaya Sopka (4750 m or 15,584 ft), while the most striking and recognized are the 3 volcanoes seen from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: Koryaksky, Avachinsky, and Kozelsky.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Kamchatka-Peninsula (223 words)

	Caribbean storms claim more than 250 lives
		Rescuers desperately searched for victims in the Dominican town of Jimani after a raging river carrying away scores of sleeping women, children and men in the middle of the night.
		At least 94 of the Dominican dead were in Jimani, in the southeastern province of Independencia, the national emergency commission said.
		The agricultural town of 45,000 is based on the dried bed of a river.
	www.terradaily.com /2004/040525192051.rpl6z1rr.html (547 words)

	Dominican, Haiti Floods Kill at Least 360 (over 300 more missing)
		JIMANI, Dominican Republic - The caskets of dozens of children lined this town's streets after floods swept away whole villages and sent desperate families into the darkness and mud in a frantic search for loved ones.
		In the devastated Dominican town of Jimani, rescue workers wore surgical masks and residents held handkerchiefs to their noses to ward off the stench of decomposing flesh as they used shovels and sticks to dig through mud and rubble for corpses.
		The dead included 158 at Fond Verettes, a town that was devastated by a river of mud, 200 in the southeast region and two in the south, at Port-a-Piment, Haitian Justice Minister and acting Interior Minister Bernard Gousse told Reuters.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1142388/posts (1835 words)

	233 Deaths and Counting - DR1 Forums
		Unfortunately, this happens to the most unfortunate and Jimani is in one of the most depressed areas of the country.
		Most of those streams and rivers that are now causing problems in the Jimani - Haiti area is mostly due to the wiping out of trees, especially on the Haitian side of the border.
		The Nizao River, near Bani, has been ravaged and the endless trucks on the dangerous highway to Santo Domingo are a menace to everyone.
	www.dr1.com /forums/showthread.php?t=31878 (846 words)

	InterAction.org \| Media
		In response to the massive flooding in the Caribbean this weekend that pelted the border towns of Fonds-Verettes and Jimani, Food for the Hungry is providing emergency relief to the Dominican Republic.
		Hitting Haiti on Sunday, the storm crossed quickly into the impoverished city of Jimani in the Dominican Republic on Monday where death toll counts are 300 and rising.
		The situation is rapidly growing worse because of the threat of contaminates left from standing water and lack of shelter from the elements.
	www.interaction.org /newswire/detail.php?id=2932 (404 words)

	The Heat Is Online
		In the devastated Dominican town of Jimani, bodies were taken from the mud and from Lago Enriquillo, a lake where they had been swept by the raging waters.
		Some 135 people were killed in the Jimani area of western Dominican Republic, near the border with Haiti, and more than 200 people were believed to be missing, officials at an emergency operations center said.
		The Dominican town of Jimani on the border with Haiti - where two rivers overflowed their banks - and districts east of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, are among those worst hit.
	www.heatisonline.org /contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=4677&method=full (6595 words)

	Earth Observatory Features: Flood Disaster Hits Hispaniola
		The worst flooding occurred along a river system that drains the north flank of the Massif de la Salle and in a poorly drained area along the south flank of the massif.
		A key factor in the intensity of the destruction is the extensive deforestation within the associated drainage basins and the presence of settlements within the floodplains of rivers and in other low areas on the south flank of the massif.
		Comparison of the imagery with a shaded version of the SRTM data highlights the floodplain in the vicinity of the town of Jimani as a light-colored depression, indicating that large sections of the town are situated in the floodplain.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Study/Haiti2004 (1348 words)

	GreatJoints - Jimani Lounge and Restaurant
		This place is on the corner of Chartres and Iberville - north of the river and just south of the Acme Oyster Bar next to a couple of disgusting looking strip joints - in a rather seedy side of the Quarter.
		And always dark no matter what time of day, the Jimani is a great place to escape the heat, the rain, the “I’m with Stupid” t-shirts, or the peddlers that are a part of life in the Big Easy.
		In fact, the Jimani measures up to four basic tenants of a great joint: cold beer, great music, satellite sports on television, and a grill that can make a mean hamburger or chicken sandwich.
	www.greatjoints.com /bar.php?id=11 (548 words)

	washingtonpost.com: WORLD IN BRIEF
		SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- At least 76 people, nearly half of them children, were killed when a rain-swollen river burst its banks and swept away dozens of homes in the western Dominican Republic on Monday, officials said.
		Rescue workers searched for dozens more people missing in the flooded area near the Haitian border, but suspended their efforts for the day as darkness fell.
		A local volunteer group, Citizens Taking Part, estimated 200 people had died after the Jimani river burst its banks and swirled into a dry river valley near the town of Jimani, a spokesman for the group said.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A53283-2004May24?language=printer (407 words)

	Salvation Army workers in the Dominican Republic concentrate relief efforts on remote town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Mayor of Jimani, the military chief, with an escort of soldiers, and other authorities were present as we started the distribution.
		Between the lakes, at a mountain pass border crossing, sits the frontier town of Jimani with a population of 7,500 Dominicans and as many as 5,000 illegal Haitian immigrants.
		Jimani is a six-hour drive from the capital city of Santo Domingo, creating logistical challenges for any relief operation.
	www.salvationarmyusa.org /ihq/www_sa.nsf/txt-vw-news/6A00CFDEF6B7E5FE80256EB6004CDBB7?opendocument (547 words)

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		The Solie River, whose course starts in Haiti and crosses to the Dominican side, swept away livestock, cars and fields of plantains in the worst floods in the island's history.
		She was swollen with eight months of pregnancy when the river and the mudslides destroyed her home.
		To Jimani, he sent convicts and the poor, anyone who was willing to live in a scorching hot valley with no attractions except its proximity to Haiti.
	www.northjersey.com /page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkyJmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2NTUxMDY0 (1353 words)

	Scotsman.com News - International - Mudslides and floods kill 270 in Caribbean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frantic relatives dug through the mud in the Dominican village of Jimani in search of loved ones as emergency workers, wearing white gloves and face masks, watched lorries dump naked corpses into a 15ft ditch left partially uncovered to leave room for more bodies.
		About 50 of the dead in the Jimani area were Haitians who had crossed the border to live and work.
		In Haiti, up to 100 people were killed in the town of Fond Verettes and the surrounding countryside, and 40 died in the south-east region of the country in the floods of the past two days, sources close to Haiti’s Civil Protection Office said.
	news.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=598242004 (1037 words)

	TrekEarth \| Jimani flood survivor Photo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At about three o'clock in the morning on May 25th of last year, a week before this photo was taken, this man and his family were sound asleep in their home.
		He was able to get his wife and children out of the house in the pitch fl darkness, but the swirling debris and raging torrent pulled them screaming in terror from his arms.
		They, along with thousands of their neighbors, were swept away down the roaring river and were never seen again.
	trekearth.com /gallery/Central_America/.../West/photo166318.htm (350 words)

	Jimani River - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Jimani River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jimani River - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Jimani River.
		Here you will find more informations about Jimani River.
		On 24 May 2004, it overran its banks resulting in the death of at least 76 people, with hundreds of people injured and homeless near the city of Jimani http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5242284/1.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Jimani-River.html (119 words)

	Caribbean storms claim more than 502 lives
		Rescuers desperately searched for survivors in the Dominican border town of Jimani after a raging river carried away scores of sleeping women, children and men in the middle of the night.
		Dominican authorities said 236 people were still missing in the floods and more than 13,000 people were left homeless after swollen rivers turned into torrents.
		The Soleil River burst its banks in the early hours of Monday, sweeping away entire households.
	www.terradaily.com /2004/040526073346.h0jbtjce.html (493 words)

	GEsource World Guide - Dominican Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Swollen rivers and debris cut off many of the roads traversing the region along the base of the mountain, making it challenging for humanitarian relief workers to rescue stranded people and deliver badly needed food, medicine and supplies to residents.
		This photo shows a cemetery in Jimani that was almost completely overrun by gravel and debris deposited by the torrential flows of rainwater running down the northern flank of the Massif de la Salle.
		The thin, bright white ribbon snaking northward from bottom center of the May 30 scene is the Solie River bed, now filled with highly reflective gravel swept downstream off the Massif de la Salle and overrunning portions of Jimani.
	www.gesource.ac.uk /worldguide/html/869_articles.html (1268 words)

	CBSNews.com: Print This Story
		Bloated bodies caked with mud were piled in a hospital's makeshift morgue in western Jimani near the Haitian border.
		The dead were mostly from towns in southern Haiti, including Fond Parisienne, near the Dominican border and Jimani.
		Another man died when he was caught in strong currents as he fished off the coast.
	uttm.com /stories/2004/05/25/world/printable619508.shtml (679 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Hundreds die in Dominican Republic floods
		More than 100 bodies have been dumped in a mass grave in Jimani, a town of about 10,000 on the Haitian border largely populated by Haitian migrants.
		Heavy rains caused the Solie River in Jimani to burst its banks, sweeping away wooden shacks in three neighbourhoods.
		The Dominican government had issued an alert on Sunday warning people that rivers may swell with the rains, but Jimani - more than 100 miles west of the capital, Santo Domingo - has only limited access to radio broadcasts.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/26/uflood.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/05/26/ixportaltop.html (265 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Soldiers aid in search for victims of Hispaniola flooding
		JIMANI, Dominican Republic – Dominicans and Haitians searched for more flood victims Wednesday, burying corpses quickly and telling relatives that not all bodies could wait to be identified.
		Heavy rains Sunday across the island of Hispaniola caused the Solie River in Jimani to overflow its banks, sweeping away wooden shacks in three neighborhoods.
		Haiti's Interior Ministry said there were 83 confirmed deaths on the Haitian side but the toll was rising as rescuers and family members continued to pull corpses from the mud.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040526-0659-caribbean-storms.html (709 words)

	major disasters worldwide: 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the Jimani area of western Dominican Republic, near the border with Haiti, at least 329 deaths are confirmed, and another 375 are reported missing.
		The rising waters from the Jimani river sweep away homes, cut utilities and prevent rescuers from reaching the hardest-hit regions.
		Pounding rains at dawn force the Escondido River to rise 8 meters (25 feet) in 15 minutes, flooding hundreds of houses in the Villa de Fuente neighborhood of Piedras Negras.
	www.e11th-hour.org /resources/timelines/global.disasters.2004.html (4355 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Press solidarity with flood victims
		"Jimani, a distant town almost unknown to the majority of Dominicans, requires all the active solidarity possible from all of us, including the central government and its diverse branches."
		Hoy calls for Jimani to be declared a disaster zone, and, warning that floods bring illnesses and epidemics, also calls on the authorities "to initiate as soon as possible a vaccination programme for children and adults".
		A headline in the English-language Santo Domingo News speaks of the "Macabre tragedy near Jimani".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3748873.stm (517 words)

	CNN.com - Dominican floods kill 100 people - May 25, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		JIMANI, Dominican Republic -- More than 100 people have died after two weeks of near constant rain flooded towns across the Dominican Republic.
		The rising waters from the Jimani river swept away homes, cut utilities and prevented rescuers from reaching the hardest-hit regions.
		Some of the corpses were left at the side of the road, waiting for relatives to identify and claim them.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/05/25/cache/206686.html (370 words)

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