Río Misicuni
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 Bolivia
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| River system | Amazon | |
| Drain over | Río Altamachi → Río Santa Elena → Río Alto Beni → Río Beni → Rio Madeira → Amazon → Atlantic Ocean | |
| origin | nameless mountain lake 17 ° 15 ′ 55 ″ S , 66 ° 12 ′ 34 ″ W |
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| Source height | approx. 4300 m | |
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Río Altamachi Coordinates: 16 ° 59 ′ 46 ″ S , 66 ° 22 ′ 52 ″ W 16 ° 59 ′ 46 ″ S , 66 ° 22 ′ 52 ″ W. |
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| Mouth height | 3505 m | |
| Height difference | approx. 795 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 17 ‰ | |
| length | 48 km | |
The Río Misicuni is one of the rivers in the upper reaches of the Río Beni and is located on the eastern slopes of the Andean Cordillera in the South American state of Bolivia .
course
The Río Misicuni rises in the Cordillera de Cocapata , it is 48 kilometers long and belongs to the Amazon river system . The river begins in a spring lake at an altitude of 4300 m. The Río Misicuni flows largely through the Cordillera de Cocapata in a northerly direction and ends after 48 kilometers, merges here with the Río Totorani and then bears the name Río Altamachi . The Río Altmachi flows downstream into the Río Santa Elena , which flows further north and joins the Río Cotacajes to form the Río Alto Beni .
Dam project
Since the 1960s there have been plans to damm the Río Misicuni into a lake by means of a dam and to feed the water of the Misicuni and some tributaries through a tunnel system to the plateau of Cochabamba in order to secure the water supply of the metropolitan region in the long term. The expansion of the project has been interrupted again and again in the past decades. After completion of the dam, the power plant went into operation in 2017.
Web links
- Erik Muñoz Vargas, Juan Pablo Rojas A., René Murillo C., Jaime Ponce B .: Proyecto Múltiple Misicuni In: Revistas Bolivianas. October 2010 ( Spanish )
- Planes Maestros Metropolitanos de Agua Potable y Saneamiento de Cochabamba ( Spanish )
- Misicuni - Proyecto Hidroeléctrico de Energía Renovable ( Spanish )
- Dams in Amazonia: Misicuni Dam Profile ( English )