View of the Irpavi River at the Irpavi II neighborhood in La Paz, taken on January 7, 2025. Surrounded by destroyed houses on a hillside in La Paz, at the end of a collapsed avenue that turns into an abyss, lives Cristóbal Quispe, a 74-year-old Aymara small businessman who witnessed the collapse of hundreds of houses, including his own, due to heavy rains in 2011. At least 400 buildings disappeared in the Las Flores Valley, a peri-urban area in the east of the city, according to local mayoral estimates. (Photo by JORGE BERNAL / AFP)