GeoFlow Andina

Hydrology
Hydraulics
Natural Hazards

Engineering to understand water, territory and their challenges.

About

Water, territory
and engineering.

GeoFlow Andina is an engineering consultancy focused on hydrology, hydraulics and natural hazards.

Its purpose is to support the understanding of water processes and their relationship with the territory, as a basis for developing engineering solutions.

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Areas of work

Services

Hydraulic works design

Detailed design of river works and debris-flow mitigation structures, and hydraulic design of bridges and crossings, backed by numerical modeling.

Steep hillside gully with boulders under fog

Debris flow hazard

Hazard assessment of debris flows: numerical simulation of events and hazard zoning to define mitigation measures.

Hydraulic structure surrounded by a river in flood

Flood studies

1D and 2D hydraulic modeling of floods in channels and ravines to delineate flood-prone areas and design bridges and crossings.

Winding river channel in a mountain valley

Fluvial mechanics

Analysis of channel behavior: sediment transport, erosion and sediment supply from ravines, as a basis for the design of river works.

Hydrology

Catchment hydrology studies: flood estimation, rainfall analysis and the rainfall thresholds that trigger debris flows.

Weather station with anemometer and solar panel

Monitoring

Field measurements of flow, topography and grain size using drones, GNSS and gauging, and rating curves for ecological flow control.

Our work

Featured projects

Field photo record.

Aerial view of temporary bridges over a channel affected by a debris flow

Debris flows and infrastructure

Channels, events and modeling

Control structure with a steel grate in a mountain channel

Field campaigns

Measurements and surveys in high mountains

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The people

Team

Alex Garcés Catalán

Hydraulic Civil Engineer · M.Sc. · Ph.D.

Hazards from floods, debris flows and rockfall in the context of climate change.

More than 10 years of experience in consulting, applied research and teaching. Researcher at the Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC), Universidad de Chile, with 10 journal publications and more than 25 conference presentations.

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