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Macagua Dam

Bolívar, Venezuela

The 179th largest power station in the world

3.15 GW · Capacity

The Macagua Dam, officially known as Antonio José de Sucre, is an embankment dam with concrete gravity sections on the Caroní River in Ciudad Guayana, Bolívar State, Venezuela. It is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) upstream from the confluence of the Caroni and Orinoco Rivers, 81 km (50 mi) downstream of the Guri Dam and 22 kilometres (14 mi) downstream of the Caruachi Dam. The dam's main purpose is hydroelectric power generation and it was later named after Antonio José de Sucre.

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

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  1. Guri Dam10.24 GW
  2. Tocoma Dam2.3 GW
  3. Caruachi Dam2.16 GW

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