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The dam is 196 metres (643 ft) high, equivalent to a 65-story building. [21] Though it is the seventh largest reservoir in size in Brazil, the Itaipu's reservoir has the highest ratio of electricity production to flooded area. For the 14,000 MW installed power, 1,350 square kilometres (520 sq mi) were flooded.
Many of the dams and reservoirs in Brazil listed below are used primarily used to produce hydroelectric power. ... Xingó Dam: Alagoas Sergipe: 1994: 60: 3,162: See also
The dam is a 30 metres (98 ft) high, 2,825 metres (9,268 ft) long rock and earth-fill embankment dam. The dam creates a 1,200,000,000 cubic metres (970,000 acre⋅ft) capacity reservoir with a surface area of 100 square kilometres (39 sq mi) and catchment area of 630,000 square kilometres (240,000 sq mi).
Oahe Dam [2] United States: 1963 70.3 75 29 786 TE/ER 6 Mangla Dam Pakistan: 1967 65.4 147 7.25 1,000 TE or TE/ER 7 Gardiner Dam [6] Canada: 1967 65.4 64 9.4 186 TE 8 Oroville Dam United States: 1968 59.6 230 4.36 819 TE/ER 9 San Luis Dam (BF Sisk Dam) United States: 1967 59.6 93 2.52 424 TE 10 Nurek Dam Tajikistan: 1980 54 300 10.5 3,200 TE 11 ...
Below are the reservoirs (artificial lakes) in the world with a surface area exceeding 500 km 2 (190 sq mi). Reservoirs can be formed conventionally, by damming the outlet of a canyon or valley to form a lake; the largest of this type is Ghana 's Lake Volta , with a water surface of 8,500 km 2 (3,300 sq mi).
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in California in a sortable table. There are over 1,400 named dams and 1,300 named reservoirs in the state of California . Dams in service
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Nevada. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
Though argued to be a relatively small area for a dam's energy output, this output cannot be fully obtained without the construction of other dams planned within the dam complex. [12] The expected area of reservoir for the Belo Monte dam and the necessary Altamira dam together will exceed 6500 km 2 of rainforest. [12]