by 1965 fewer than a half dozen buildings had been rebuilt in the creek valley adjacent north of the city. the valley was still filled by as many as three meters of soil and debris deposited by the 1941 avalanche. giant boulders lay about, some protruding as many as four meters above the 1965 creek bed level. many boulders from the 1941 avalanche were strewn down to the confluence of the creek with the santa river. huaraz area residents who remembered the disaster of 1941 said in 1965 that the river itself was diverted by avalanche debris for some days until eroded away and carried downstream (northward), and there were boulders on the west bank that had come with the avalanche.