Rescuers working in Salgar, Columbia were stunned to find an 11-month-old baby alive after a landslide that left 78 people, including the baby’s mother, dead.

The infant, Jhosep Diaz, was in a padded crib.  The water and mud slide picked up the baby’s crib which flowed like a raft and traveled more than half a mile.  Doctors who treated the boy say that he was cold but basically unharmed by his adventure.

“He was unconscious and didn’t open his little eyes but was breathing,” Dr Jesus Antonio Guisao told the AP news agency.

The boy’s mother was found dead along with 11 other family members by rescue personnel.  The baby will go to the custody of his grandfather, who said that he lost a total of 16 family members in the disaster.

“Amid so much bad news concerning the death of 16 of our relatives, my grandson’s survival is a miracle,” he said.

Officials say the landslide is the worst natural disaster in Columbia since 1999.  The landslide struck around 3 a.m. local time and stretches 25 miles along the Liboriana River.