Floods and torrential rain have not gone away and residents hail stories of heroism as the clean-up continues.

Thousands of students in Spain's eastern Valencia region returned to classes on Monday, two weeks after floods killed over 200 people and devastated towns in the area.

Regional leader Carlos Mazon says he has done everything he can in the face of a ‘monstrous avalanche of water that exceeded all weather forecasts’

The swollen Benamargosa river in the region of Malaga swept dozens of cars away on Wednesday as heavy rain caused havoc in southern and eastern Spain. Emergency services in Malaga have moved 3,000 people from homes at high risk of flooding near the Guadalhorce River west of the city,

Here’s a look at Spain’s deadliest natural disaster of the century, by the numbers: The historic floods caused 219 deaths, 211 of them in the Valencia region alone. Another seven people died in neighboring Castilla La Mancha and one more in southern Andalusia.