Official name AES Alicurá Location Patagonia Opening date 1985 Opened 1985 Impound Limay River | Country Argentina Status Operational Owner(s) AES Argentina Province Río Negro Province | |
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Similar Piedra del Águila Dam, El Chocón Dam, Nahuel Huapi Lake, Lago Quillén, Salto Grande Dam | ||
The Alicurá Dam (in Spanish, Embalse de Alicurá) is the first of five dams on the Limay River in northwestern Argentine Patagonia (the Comahue region), about 100 kilometres (62 mi) from the city of San Carlos de Bariloche and 705 metres (2,313 ft) above mean sea level. It was inaugurated in 1985.
Map of Embalse de Alicura, R%C3%ADo Negro, Argentina
The dam is used primarily for the generation of hydroelectricity with an installed capacity of 1,050 MW. The reservoir is also employed to raise Salmonidae.
The Alicurá reservoir has an area of 67.5 square kilometres (26.1 sq mi), a mean depth of 48.4 metres (159 ft) (maximum 110 metres (360 ft)), and a volume of 3,215,000,000 cubic metres (2,606,000 acre·ft).
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