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Luiz Barreto Dam

São Paulo, Brazil

The 860th largest power station in the world

1.05 GW · Capacity

The Luiz Carlos Barreto de Carvalho Dam is an embankment dam on the Grande River near Fronteira in São Paulo, Brazil. The dam serves an associated hydroelectric power plant with a 1,050 megawatts (1, 410, 000 hp) installed capacity.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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