Abstract:Extensive road construction works recently took place in the remote eastern part of the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca, aiming at a better connection of isolated mountain communities with regional administrative centres. Here we document and characterize landslides associated with these road construction efforts in the Río Lucma catchment, Peru. We show that a total area of 321,332 m 2 has been affected by landslides along the 47.1 km of roads constructed between 2015 and 2018. While landslides downslope the roads… Show more
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