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The 146 m (479 ft) tall dam withholds one of the largest reservoirs in Mexico of 18,200,000,000 m 3 (14,754,980 acre⋅ft). [4] [5] Initial construction on the dam began in 1969 and foundation work in 1971. On May 8, 1974, the dam began to impound its reservoir. [6] On 14 July 1976, the dam's first generator went online. [7]
The Infiernillo Dam ("Little hell"), also known as Adolfo López Mateos Dam, is an embankment dam on the Balsas River near La Unión, Guerrero, Mexico. It is on the border between the states of Guerrero and Michoacán. [1] The dam supports a hydroelectric power station containing six turbine-generators for a total installed capacity of 1,120 MW.
La Boquilla Dam (Spanish: Presa de la Boquilla) is a masonry arch-gravity dam on the Rio Conchos in Chihuahua, Mexico. It was built in 1910 to provide hydroelectricity, irrigation and flood control, and forms Toronto Lake with a capacity of 2.903 cubic kilometres (2,354,000 acre⋅ft). [ 1 ]
Malpaso is one of several on the Grijalva River in Chiapas, along with the Chicoasén, Peñitas, and Belisario Dominguez (La Angostura). [4] The Nezahualcoyotl is the second largest reservoir in Mexico after the Belisario Dominguez, [5] covering an area of 995,000 hectares [6] and with a maximum storage capacity of 9,750 million meters cubed. [7]
One of Mexico's most important federal highways, Fed-15 covers a wide corridor of the country's west and northwest, linking Mexico City with the U.S.-Mexico border crossing at Heroica Nogales, Sonora, connecting some of the country's most important urban centers along the way, particularly Guadalajara, Toluca, Mazatlán, and Hermosillo.
The Av. Aquiles Serdan/Fed. 1 intersection A sign on the Fed. 1 displaying how to get to San Diego (2007) "Bienvenidos a Baja California" state entrance road sign. Federal Highway 1 (Spanish: Carretera Federal 1, Fed. 1) is a free (libre) part of the federal highway corridors (los corredores carreteros federales) of Mexico, and the highway follows the length of the Baja California Peninsula ...
This is a list of numbered federal highways (carreteras federales) in Mexico.Federal Highways from north to south are assigned odd numbers; highways from west to east are assigned even numbers.
This is a list of autopistas, or tolled (cuota) highways, in Mexico.Tolled roads are often built as bypasses, as toll bridges, and to provide direct intercity connections.