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Central America braces for Hurricane Julia

Tropical Storm Julia has turned into a hurricane and is expected to make landfall in Nicaragua early Sunday, according to the US National Hurricane Center and local authorities.

And the center announced in a statement that “Julia turned into a hurricane with winds of 120 km / h as it passed near the islands of San Andres and Providencia,” which together with Santa Catalina form a Colombian archipelago with a population of about 48,000 people in the Caribbean Sea.

For her part, Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Moreau said that Julia is expected to make landfall on Sunday as a Category 1 hurricane between Orinoco and Laguna de Perlas in the north of the city of Bluefields on the southeast coast of the country.

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