Tucuruí Dam
Tucuruí (Guarani: Tucuruí, Portuguese: Tucuruí, is an hydroelectric dam on the Tocantins River located on the Tucuruí County in Brazil.
The name "Tucuruí" was taken from a little city that existed near the construction site; there is now a city of the same name just downstream of the dam. The installed generation capacity of the plant is 8,3 GW, with 24 generating units.
The dam was featured in the 1985 film The Emerald Forest.
History
In 1970, the consortium formed by the Brazilian companies ENGEVIX and THEMAG won the international competition for the realization of the viability studies and for the elaboration of the construction project. Works began in 1976. The Tucuruí spillway is the largest in the world with 120,000m3/s of capacity of discharge. It was conceived by the Brazilian engineer Jorge Rios and studied in the Francisco Rodrigues Saturnino de Brito hydraulics laboratory, in Rio de Janeiro.
Dam
Height: 78m
Length: 11km
Spillway capacity: 120,000m3/s
Construction: 1976-1984
Owner: Eletronorte
Geography
Coordinates: (3°49′43″S 49°38′20″W / 3.828629°S 49.638977°W)
Bibliography
- RIOS, Jorge Paes. The flood gates operating instructions of Tucurui Hydroelectric Power Plant . San Francisco (CA), 1986. (ICOLD = International Committee on Large Dams). - Les consignes d' opération des vannes de l'Usine Hydroelectrique de Tucurui .
- Fearnside, P.M. 2001. Environmental impacts of Brazil's Tucuruí Dam: Unlearned lessons for hydroelectric development in Amazonia. Environmental Management 27(3): 377-396.