Itaipu dam, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay

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The second bigest dam of the world (after the Chinese Three Gorges), but producing the most electric energy in the world more than 90 TWh) per year. There are free guided tours around the dam explaining the history and the facts. But, of course, the iformation you get is a propaganda of the Paraguayan government hiding how much was destroyed building this enormous dam which started in 1973 and the first generator started to work in 1984, adding the others later. To create the dam, many indigenous villages dessapeared as well as the original rain forest and falls more amazing than Iguazu...

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Photos

many termitaries on the way
(walking to the dam)

walking around
I had to wait few hours for the next guided tour (it's not possible to walk wihin the Itaipu complex on your own)

inside the complex
the work is huge, it generates the whole energy consumed by Paraguay and approx one third of the energy consumed by Brasil

one of the more than twenty generators
(ten of the generators belong to Brasil, the other to Paraguay)

it is huge!
tens thousands of people were constructing this enormous dam living with their families in a town near to it built only for the dam constructed purposes

a small forest
(souvenir of the workers died during building the dam) there is a short text at every tree saying to which worker it belongs

the energy is beeing distributed to the whole country
(even to the northern Chaco at the Bolivian border)

the dam has a part on the side
this part serves to not extend the dam