Country Argentina Status Under construction Height 44 m Construction began July 2015 | Purpose Power Impounds Santa Cruz River Surface area 198 km² Impound Santa Cruz River | |
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Location Puerto Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Province Type of dam Embankment, concrete-face rock-fill Similar Messochora Dam, Los Caracoles Dam, Rama Dam, Piedra del Águila Dam, Punta Negra Dam | ||
The Jorge Cepernic Dam, formerly known as La Barrancosa Dam, is a concrete-face rock-fill dam being built on the Santa Cruz River about 115 km (71 mi) west of Puerto Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. It is named after the former governor of Santa Cruz Jorge Cepernic. A consortium led by China's Gezhouba Group was awarded the contract to build the Jorge Cepernic Dam and the Néstor Kirchner Dam upstream in August 2013. The consortium will also fund the construction. Both dams are expected to cost nearly US$4.8 billion. It will be built by the firm Electroingeniería, led by Osvaldo Acosta and Gerardo Ferreyra. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and its power station will have an installed capacity of 600 MW.
In July 2015 machines arrived in Santa Cruz for the construction of the dams.