What is left when Peru's flood waters recede

Televisions and a chair sit on a pedestrian bridge after rivers breached their banks due to torrential rains, causing flooding and widespread destruction in Carapongo Huachipa, Lima, Peru, March 21, 2017. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo

CARAPONGO, Peru (Reuters) - On the outskirts of Lima, hundreds of householders salvage scant belongings in what is left of their homes after the Rimac River burst its banks in recent weeks amid Peru's worst flooding disaster in decades.

Many of the hardest hit are those who can least afford it - poor Peruvians who built their homes on cheap land near the river, which runs from Peru's central Andes to the Pacific coast.