Roads Destroyed & Left Impassable In Storm Marta’s Wake In Andalucia

Severe roadworthy collapses and closures person plagued confederate Spain, peculiarly Andalucia, owed to nan seemingly endless deluge from Storm Marta. As of early February, authorities study up to 168-179 roads trim disconnected crossed nan state owed to flooding, landslides, and structural failures, pinch nan immense majority, astir 137-150, successful Andalucia. The utmost upwind section has disrupted regular life, isolated communities, and forced wide evacuations.

Major roads affected successful Andalucia

Main disruptions deed nan superior roadworthy network. The A-48 adjacent Vejer de la Frontera (Cadiz) successful nan guidance of Tarifa, nan A-44 astatine Campillo de Arenas (Jaen) toward Granada, and nan A-32 successful Villacarrillo (Jaen) heading to Albacete stay closed. These incidents compound problems successful a region already battered by anterior storms.

Partial illness connected A-373 successful Prado del Rey

One melodramatic arena occurred connected Saturday successful Prado del Rey, Cadiz, wherever nan A-373 suffered a awesome sinkhole astatine kilometre 1. Heavy rains from Storm Marta caused visible cracks and terrible illness of sections of nan roadway. Guardia Civil images showed nan grade of nan damage, starring to contiguous postulation interruption for information reasons. This roadworthy links section areas and has go wholly impassable.

7 de feb de 2026 a las 21:36]
Cortada la carretera A-373, km 1 en Prado del Rey (Cádiz), por hundimiento de la calzada provocado por las lluvias.
Esto agrava el problema de comunicación del municipio que dificulta el acceso de los camiones de aprovisionamiento. pic.twitter.com/vNrOJaXjDz

— Rosa Marcos 🇪🇸 (@Rosa68386313) February 7, 2026

A-374 isolation successful Serrania de Ronda

In nan Serrania de Ronda area, nan A-374 (connecting Ronda pinch Algodonales and Sevilla) has been rendered unusable successful aggregate sections. A awesome ace and landslide adjacent Algodonales created a six-metre sinkhole astatine kilometre 0 successful immoderate reports, while different stretches saw nan difficult enarthrosis collapse. The politician of El Gastor expressed heavy interest complete severed connections, impacting resident mobility, basal services, emergency access, and supplies. A provisional shelter pinch 100 beds was group up, and a Guardia Civil chopper was deployed for support. Additional section roads for illustration MA-7402, MA-8306, and others successful nan Genal Valley and Guadalteba stay closed owed to flooding aliases slips.

Wider effect and terrible warnings

Over 11,000 group person been evacuated crossed Cadiz, Cordoba, Jaen, Sevilla, Granada, Huelva, and Malaga provinces from stream overflows, flash floods, and terrain instability. Authorities, including Interior Councillor Antonio Sanz, pass of persistently precocious risks arsenic caller fronts arrive, urging utmost be aware amid ongoing rain, wind, and saturated ground.

Why and really these roads collapsed

These roadworthy collapses resulted from prolonged and aggravated rainfall saturating nan soil, starring to erosion, landslides, and structural undermining. In hilly aliases mountainous areas for illustration nan Serranía de Ronda and Sierra de Cadiz, h2o infiltrates slopes, reducing stableness and triggering debris flows aliases afloat hard-shoulder failure.

For sinkholes (e.g., A-373), accelerated subsurface erosion from dense runoff washes distant supporting worldly beneath nan roadbed, causing abrupt subsidence. Pre-existing ungraded saturation from consecutive storms (including anterior ones for illustration Leonardo) amplified nan damage, arsenic nan crushed could nary longer sorb much water, causing accelerated runoff, scouring, and overload connected infrastructure. Poor drainage, mixed pinch utmost precipitation volumes, overwhelmed roads not afloat designed for specified prolonged deluges, resulting successful cracks, deformations, and full collapses.