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Many of the dams and reservoirs in Brazil listed below are used primarily used to produce hydroelectric power. Other uses include flood control, irrigation and fisheries.
The Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, China, has the world's largest instantaneous generating capacity at 22,500 MW of power. In second place is the Baihetan Dam, also in China, with a capacity of 16,000 MW. The Itaipu Dam in Paraguay and Brazil is the third largest with 14,000 MW of power.
Tokuyama Dam, largest dam in the country and creates the largest reservoir; North Korea ... Itaipu Dam (shared with Brazil) Yaciretá Dam (shared with Argentina) Peru
The dam is 307 kilometres (191 mi) from the state capital of Fortaleza. [3] It is the largest multiple-use public reservoir in Brazil and the largest dam in Brazil on an intermittent river. [2] [4] The reservoir has 6,700,000,000 cubic metres (2.4 × 10 11 cu ft) capacity, of which 250,000,000 cubic metres (8.8 × 10 9 cu ft) is dead volume. [2]
According to the Associação Brasileira de Distribuidores de Energia Elétrica (ABRADEE) there are 201 hydroelectric power stations in Brazil with a nameplate capacity of more than 30 MW; the total capacity of these power stations in 2015 was 84,703 MW. There are an additional 476 hydroelectric power stations with a nameplate capacity between ...
The list below largely ignores many natural lakes that have been augmented with the addition of a relatively minor dam. For example, a small dam, two hydroelectric plants, and locks on the outlet of Lake Superior make it possible to artificially control the lake level.
The following table lists the largest man-made dams by volume of fill/structure. By general definition, a dam is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams, hence tailings dams are relegated to a separate list. Data on volume of structure is not as easily available or reliable as data on dam height and reservoir volume.
The Serra da Mesa Dam, once known as Sao Felix, is an embankment dam on the Tocantins River near Minaçu in Goiás, Brazil. The dam serves an associated hydroelectric power plant with a 1,275 megawatts (1,710,000 hp) installed capacity. The dam creates the largest reservoir by volume in Brazil. [1]