Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres
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The National Coordination for Disaster Reduction of Guatemala
(in Spanish
: Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres (CONRED)) is an entity created to prevent disasters or reduce their impact on society, and coordinate disaster relief efforts.
Day to day management is carried out by the Executive Secretariat of CONRED, also known as SE-CONRED.
CONRED is responsible for asserting potential hazards, impending or actual disasters based on information provided by the National Institute for Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology (INSIVUMEH), and for declaring states of alert. Once a disaster has been declared, it is responsible for the coordination of cross-sectoral disaster relief efforts.
CONRED is part of a Central American network of governmental disaster relief agencies known as the Coordination Center for the Prevention of Natural Disasters in Central America (in Spanish
: Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de los Desastres Naturales en América Central (CEPREDENAC)). CEPREDENAC was created in the context of the Central American Integration System (SICA)
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Guatemala
Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...
(in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
: Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres (CONRED)) is an entity created to prevent disasters or reduce their impact on society, and coordinate disaster relief efforts.
Day to day management is carried out by the Executive Secretariat of CONRED, also known as SE-CONRED.
CONRED is responsible for asserting potential hazards, impending or actual disasters based on information provided by the National Institute for Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology (INSIVUMEH), and for declaring states of alert. Once a disaster has been declared, it is responsible for the coordination of cross-sectoral disaster relief efforts.
CONRED is part of a Central American network of governmental disaster relief agencies known as the Coordination Center for the Prevention of Natural Disasters in Central America (in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
: Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de los Desastres Naturales en América Central (CEPREDENAC)). CEPREDENAC was created in the context of the Central American Integration System (SICA)
Central American Integration System
Central American Integration System is the economic, cultural and political organization of Central American states since February 1, 1993. It was on December 13, 1991, however, when all the countries of the ODECA signed the Protocol of Tegucigalpa which extended the earlier cooperation in search...
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External links
- Coordination Center for the Prevention of Natural Disasters in Central America (CEPREDENAC)
- SATCA Early warning system for Central America (Sistema de Alerta Temprana para Centroamérica (SATCA))
- Humanitarian Information Network for Latin America and the Caribbean (Red de Información Humanitaria para América Latina y el Caribe (Redhum))