The second major storm of the season triggered a landslide in Puerto Vallarta’s Gastronomic Subdivision, causing a retaining wall to collapse late Tuesday night. The incident, which occurred near the large Libramiento tunnel between the 5 de Diciembre and El Caloso neighborhoods, left residents shaken, flooded an apartment in Tower H, and disrupted the area’s drinking water supply.
Around 11:00 p.m., during continuous rainfall, residents reported hearing a loud crash. Just before the incident, electricity had gone out in the building. Once power was restored, neighbors discovered that part of the hillside had given way, bringing down a wall and rupturing a pipe that connected multiple residential towers.
The resulting water leak, combined with rain and mud from the hillside, inundated a ground-floor apartment, leaving families scrambling to contain the damage.
“It was a long night,” said one affected resident. “We couldn’t see what was happening until daylight.”
By morning, crews from SEAPAL (the local Water, Drainage, and Sewerage System) arrived to begin emergency repairs. The collapse left nearly 100 apartments without water, and work was immediately launched to restore service as quickly as possible.
This incident follows flooding earlier this week in the Las Glorias area, where water reached half a meter in parts of Vallarta’s Northern Hotel Zone. The events have raised concerns about infrastructure vulnerability as the storm season progresses.