MADRID (AP) — Catastrophic torrential rains that caused normally dry rivers and canals to overflow in eastern Spain last week have triggered flash floods that submerged entire communities and killed dozens of people.

The flood left behind a landscape of devastation, especially in Valenciathe hardest hit region. The search for the dead and missing continues, more than a week after the floods of October 29, as well as a gargantuan cleanup and recovery effort.

Here’s a look at Spain’s deadliest natural disaster of the century, in numbers:

At least 219 people dead and 93 missing

The historic floods caused 219 deaths, including 211 in the Valencia region alone. Seven other people died in neighboring Castile-La Mancha and another in southern Andalusia.

Ninety-three people have been officially declared missing, but authorities admit the real number could be higher. Fifty-four other bodies remain unidentified. In total, 36,605 people were rescued, according to the authorities.

The cost of the damage is in the billions

The full extent of the damage is unknown, but the Spanish Insurance Compensation Consortium, a public-private entity that pays insurance claims for extreme risks like flooding, estimates it will spend at least $3.5 billion euros ($3.8 billion) in compensation.

The consortium received 116,000 insurance claims for flood damage, of which 60% were for cars and 31% for homes. The Spanish Association of Insurance Companies expects the floods to break a historic record for compensation.

The Ministry of Transport has so far repaired 232 kilometers of road and rail lines, but the high-speed train line between Valencia and Madrid is still demolished.

The central government approved a 10.6 billion euro ($11.6 billion) relief plan for families, businesses and town halls. The Valencia regional government is also asking Madrid for 31 billion euros ($33 billion) in aid.

Record rainfall triggered disaster

The drought that has hit the country for two years and record temperatures contributed to amplifying the floodssay the scientists.

The Spanish weather agency says 30.4 inches fell in one hour in the Valencian city of Turis, a national rainfall record set on October 29. Chiva village also received more rain in eight hours than the city had experienced in the previous 20 months.

The storms focused on the Magro and Turia rivers and the Poyo Canal, transforming them into rapid currents that swept away everything in their path. To the human eye, it looked as if a tsunami-like wave of water and mud had passed through the southern suburbs of the city of Valencia.

The European Space Agency said that according to satellite images captured on October 31, the water covered an area of ​​15,633 hectares (38,600 acres). About 190,000 people were directly affected, the agency said.

In total, 78 municipalities saw at least one resident die in the floods.

More than 17,000 soldiers and police, as well as an army of volunteers

The emergency operation mobilized by central authorities extended to more than 17,000 soldiers and police officers.

The operation includes 8,000 soldiers, including 2,100 from emergency military units specializing in disaster response, as well as an additional 9,200 police officers from other regions of Spain.

Thousands of ordinary citizens volunteered, without any precise estimate of their exact numbers, and contributed from day one to the cleanup efforts.

The government said that in the first week after the floods, authorities restored electricity to 147,000 homes and distributed some 178,000 bottles of water to places that were still without drinking water.

What we still don’t know

Spanish authorities have not yet specified the number of calls concerning missing persons they have received, nor given an estimate of the material damage, nor published a calculation of the extent of the devastated land.

And at this point, no one can predict when the recovery efforts will be complete.

___ Associated Press writer Joseph Wilson in Barcelona, ​​Spain, contributed to this report.