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The 146 m (479 ft) tall dam withholds one of the largest reservoirs in Mexico of volume 18,200,000,000 m 3 (14,754,980 acre⋅ft). [4] [5] Initial construction on the dam began in 1969 and the 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 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 ]
Lake Novillo ("Presa El Novillo" in Spanish) is a man-made lake in Sonora, Mexico, near the city of San Pedro de la Cueva. More formally known as "Plutarco Elias Calles Reservoir", it is located on the Yaqui River. The dam was placed into operation on November 14, 1964.
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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]
Huites Dam, officially known as Luis Donaldo Colosio Dam, is located on the Rio Fuerte in northwestern Sinaloa, Mexico 130 kilometres (81 mi) northeast of Los Mochis.The 162-metre (531 ft)-high, hybrid concrete arch-gravity dam impounds a reservoir called Lago Huites or Presa [6] Luís Donaldo Colosio and is owned by the Comisión Federal de Electricidad.
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.