Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
General Vicente Guerrero Dam (Spanish: Presa Vicente Guerrero), also known as Las Adjuntas Dam, is a dam in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. It was constructed in 1971 for irrigation and public use. [1] It was named for Vicente Guerrero, a revolutionary general of the Mexican War of Independence.
In the 59 municipalities of Mexico State and one municipality of the state of Hidalgo that are part of Greater Mexico City, each municipality is in charge of water supply and sanitation. The municipal water utility of Mexico City, Sistema de Aguas de la Ciudad de México (SACM), is responsible for water supply and sanitation in the Federal ...
"Se crea el Municipio de Cuautitlán Izcalli, México, y se delimita la poligonal que con base en los puntos de referencia en el mencionado decreto vertidos sirven de límites a este municipio." (English: "The Municipality of Cuautitlán Izcalli, Mexico, is created and the polygonal is delimited that, based on the reference points in the ...
The Presidente Plutarco Elías Calles Dam or Plutarco Elías Calles Dam, is a dam located in the municipality of San José de Gracia (Aguascalientes), Mexico, 14 km (8.7 mi) west of the Pan-American Highway (Federal #45) in the north of the state on the edge of the Sierra Fría. [1] Its storage capacity is 340 million cubic metres (12 × 10 ^ 9 ...
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 ]
Greater Mexico City is the conurbation around Mexico City, officially called the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico (Spanish: Zona metropolitana del Valle de México). [2] It encompasses Mexico City itself and 60 adjacent municipalities of the State of Mexico and Hidalgo .