Cartagening
Personal memory by Jorge Bekerman
2016 • Cartagena, Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia
I used to go to the beach on a daily basis. The sun would beat down along the blue, clear ocean water. What happened was heavy rainfalls caused Magdalena river to overflow. The contamination of the river mixed up with sea waters and killed a lot of marine species
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