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Salvajina Dam

Colombia

The 1827th largest power station in the world

285 MW · Capacity

The Salvajina Dam and hydroelectric plant are located in the Cauca River, corregimiento Buenos Aires, municipality Suarez, department Cauca in the southwest of Colombia. Its reservoir has a length of 31 kilometres (19 mi). The dam was finished in September 1985 and has a power station with a 270 megawatts (360, 000 hp) installed capacity. The purpose of the dam is flood control, electricity production, and drinking water supply for the city of Cali.

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

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