Alicurá dam
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| Coordinates | 40 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 70 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W | ||||||
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| Construction time: | - 1984 | ||||||
| Height of the barrier structure : | 130 or 135 m | ||||||
| Height above valley floor: | 130 m (?) | ||||||
| Height above foundation level : | 135 m (?) | ||||||
| Building volume: | 13 million m³ | ||||||
| Crown length: | 880 m | ||||||
| Power plant output: | 1 000 MW | ||||||
| Data on the reservoir | |||||||
| Altitude (at congestion destination ) | 705 m | ||||||
| Water surface | 67.5 km² | ||||||
| Storage space | 3267 million m³ | ||||||
| Design flood : | 3 000 m³ / s | ||||||
The Alicurá Dam (Spanish: Embalse de Alicura ) is a total of five dams on the Limay River in northwestern Patagonia in the Argentine provinces of Rio Negro and Neuquen (the Comahue region), about 100 km from the town of San Carlos de Bariloche away . The water level is about 705 m above sea level.
The dam was inaugurated in 1985. It is primarily used to generate electricity. In addition, salmonids and other fish are raised in the reservoir . The reservoir has an area of 67.5 square kilometers and an average depth of 48.4 m (maximum 110 m). The storage volume is 3267 billion cubic meters . According to another source (see below) it is 3215 million cubic meters.
The barrier structure is an earth and stone embankment dam .
See also
- List of hydropower plants in Argentina
- List of dams in the world (Argentina)
- List of the largest dams on earth
- List of the largest reservoirs on earth
- List of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world
Web links
Commons : Alicurá Dam - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Sitio del Organismo Regulador de Seguridad de Presas: Presa Alicurá ( Memento of January 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Embalse Alicura
- Secretaría de Energía, República Argentina: Embalse de Alicurá ( Memento of November 2, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
