The 2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides were a severe natural disaster principally affecting five northeastern states of Brazil.

As a result of heavy rains, fourteen people were reported dead over a period of one month and at least 62,600 others had been left homeless as of 2 May 2009.

[4] The Amazon River Basin suffered its second-heaviest flood in one hundred years during this period.

[5] 13,000 people were immediately left homeless and there were two quick deaths in Maranhão's state capital, São Luís, both as a result of mudslides.

[5] On 23 April, it was reported that the disaster had already killed three people, including a one-month-old child from Salvador, the capital of Bahia, who was suffocated by a mudslide.

[9] President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, inspected the damage by air and brought food to those displaced by the disaster.

)[3] Brazil's Health Minister José Gomes Temporão has promised to deliver medical supplies to Maranhão.