Marbella closes seven points to traffic due to flooding while continuing to monitor the mouth of the Guadaiza

The Marbella City Council has closed traffic at up to seven points in the city. The decision was implemented around 1:40 PM ... due to the rising levels of rivers and streams caused by the intense rains that are being recorded. Until that moment, the City Council had only closed the underpasses at Golden Beach and Artola and kept the rest operational, as well as all the bridges within the municipal area. The rises, as municipal sources pointed out to SUR, have led the Council to decree the closure of five more points: Carril de Picaza; the tunnel located under the La Cañada shopping center; the underpass below the A-7 bridge over the Guadaiza river (in the area of the Cortijo Blanco hotel), the access to the concrete plant (in the vicinity of the Verde river) and Lunamar.

The City Council has activated the Municipal Emergency Plan and is keeping an eye on the mouth of the Guadaiza. Since last night, municipal services have been monitoring the riverbed in the final stretch of the river due to the "risk" it poses, as stated by the councilor delegate of Local Police, Fire Extinguishing, and Emergencies, José Eduardo Díaz. Municipal services continue to monitor the river in its final stretch today. For now, there are no problems and vehicles continue to circulate over the bridge in the area.

After Marbella has had "a calm night," incidents began to arise this morning intensely. The most significant among the several dozen actions carried out by Marbella firefighters were two landslides, recorded on the road connecting La Mairena (Ojén) and Las Chapas and in the Urbanización Torre Estéril (Benahavís), the collapse of a wall, in addition to several large trees.

Parks and outdoor sports facilities remain closed as a precaution, as does the parking at Cable Beach. The City Council has reinforced Civil Protection with a "special unit," which adds to the deployment of Firefighters, Local Police, and other municipal services.