La Paz Early Warning System (SAT) & Alertas La Paz App

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La Paz sits in a bowl of steep, flood-prone river basins, and the municipal early-warning unit (USAT) keeps them under permanent watch, issuing graded alerts for the Choqueyapu, Orkojahuira, Irpavi and Achumani basins ahead of storms — in March 2024 the city went to maximum alert on a forecast alone. Its Alertas La Paz app pushes notifications about alerts, alarms and specific forecasts for weather events, landslides and even earthquakes to residents' phones. The system is warning-only: when a hailstorm hit on 15 March 2026 under an orange alert, the Koani river still overflowed after debris washed into it and a three-storey dwelling collapsed in Chumaya — the alerts inform crews and residents, but road closures and evacuations remain human decisions.

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Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence• No measured figure

Run byGobierno Autónomo Municipal de La Paz — Unidad del Sistema de Alerta Temprana (USAT)

Scale🏙️ City-wide

🎓 Lesson

Rung two of the sensor-to-consequence ladder: the basin watch and the app deliver the warning, but nothing is actuated — the March 2026 Koani overflow shows a monitored river can still take a house down between the alert and the response.

🌱 Environment Flood resilience Sensors & IoT

Sources

↗ AMUN (Agencia Municipal de Noticias, GAMLP) — 'Alertas La Paz', la aplicación al servicio de la población (Jan 2025)Trägt: App-Funktionen (Echtzeit-Infos zu Wetterereignissen, Erdrutschen, Erdbeben), USAT als Betreiber (Leiterin Mónica Álvarez).

↗ Oxígeno Digital (independent press) — Granizada desborda el Río Koani, alerta naranja (15 Mar 2026)Trägt: Gegengewicht (Koani-Überlauf, Gebäudeeinsturz Chumaya trotz Orange-Alarm), App-Benachrichtigungen ('se envían notificaciones sobre alertas, alarmas y pronósticos específicos'), permanente Überwachung.

↗ eju.tv (press) — Fuerte tormenta amenaza a La Paz, cuatro cuencas en riesgo (Mar 2024)Trägt: überwachte Cuencas (Choqueyapu, Orkojahuira, Irpavi, Achumani u. a.), GAMLP/USAT als Betreiber, 'alerta máxima' auf Prognose.

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Compare this project

🇭🇳 Río Choluteca Real-Time Flood Sensor Network (Sistema de Alerta Temprana) · Tegucigalpa Two capital-run river warning networks that stop at the alert: sensors and apps inform, but closures and evacuation stay human decisions. 🇰🇷 Busan Urban Flood Warning System (Busan Safety ON) · Busan Warning-only flood systems on the same ladder rung; Busan flagged its own data limits, La Paz's Koani overflowed under an orange alert. 🇧🇴 PumaKatari Municipal Buses & LaPazBUS Real-Time GPS App · La Paz Another verified project from La Paz.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “La Paz Early Warning System (SAT) & Alertas La Paz App” — La Paz, Bolivia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/la-paz-early-warning/ (last verified 2026-08-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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