Collection of national and local level records on past flood and drought events. Most Information is on flood events, because drought data was not provided. There are gaps in the records. For several years there are only very few entries depending on the countries.

The database exists in two parts. This part deals with the information collected directly within the countries from the national disaster management authorities and agricultural ministries (CONASUR, NADMO, ANPC and MDGLAAT).

All available information that was recorded was included. For some entries, event-specific information could be included while for others aggregated information per year or per quarter of a year was used (not event-specific). A working paper documents the content and results of both event databases, the open source data event database and the local data event database. The three maps on (i) flood affected people, (ii) flood affected houses, and (iii) flood affected crops are drawn to illustrate the content of the database in an aggregated manner.