That figure compares to areas of inland Valencia, which experienced more than 600 litres of rainfall per square metre during roughly eight hours on Oct 29 – the day leading up to the flash flood.
Pia Serinyana, the mayor of Cadaqués, a town known for its connection with the painter Salvador Dalí, said: “We received a warning from the Cecat [Catalonia’s operational coordination centre] but people parked their cars there anyway and the torrent carried them away.”
In the Valencia region, the death toll from last week’s floods remains at 211.
Rescue workers are searching for some 90 people who are still unaccounted for, although a number of these could be included in the more than 50 bodies yet to be identified.