The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people in Puerto Rico.

1985 Puerto Rico floods

Flood event that took place in Puerto Rico

The 1985 Puerto Rico floods produced showers and thunderstorms across the island and the deadliest single landslide on record in North America, that killed at least 130 people in the Mameyes neighborhood of barrio Portugués Urbano in Ponce. The floods were the result of a…