Some 30,000 tourists, mostly foreigners, were housed on Sunday at luxury hotels in Los Cabos, which were authorized as shelters against the onslaught of Hurricane Odile in that region.
There are "30,000 tourists, 26,000 and 4,000 foreign nationals located in hotels as temporary shelters," the director of Civil Protection, Luis Felipe Puente said at a news conference.
Odile Sunday reached Category 3 up to 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, made landfall at night in Los Cabos, Baja California, a destination mostly visited by Americans, which has also forced the evacuation of coastal residents or risk of mudslides.
After landfall, Hurricane Odile was downgraded to category 2 on Monday, according to the National Weather System.
The agency said the storm north-northwest of land is located 60 kilometers west of La Paz, Baja California Sur with maximum winds of 175 km / hr and gusts of 195 km / hr, desplazándonse to 26 miles per hour to the state.
The director of Civil Protection said that "18 hotels are certified as temporary shelters" so far.
For the rest of the population of the municipality of Los Cabos and La Paz have been enabled 164 shelters with a capacity for 30,000 people.
Evacuations of residents of the region started from noon on Sunday, said Puente.
Operations at the Los Cabos airport were suspended on Sunday afternoon, and navigation is prohibited in all ports in the south of the peninsula, the classes scheduled for Monday were suspended and celebrations scheduled for national holidays were canceled, the official concluded.
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