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The Tucuruí Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Tocantins River located on the Tucuruí County in the State of Pará, Brazil. The main purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power production and navigation. It is the first large-scale hydroelectric project in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. The installed capacity of the 25-unit plant is 8,370 megawatts . Phase I construction began in 1975 and ended in 1984 while Phase II began in 1998 and ended in 2012. The dam was featured in the 1985 film The Emerald Forest.
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  • 1. Usina Hidreletrica de Tucurui Tucurui
    The Belo Monte Dam is a hydroelectric dam complex currently under construction on the northern part of the Xingu River in the state of Pará, Brazil. The planned installed capacity of the dam complex would be 11,233 megawatts , which would make it the second largest hydroelectric dam complex in Brazil and fourth largest in the world by installed capacity, behind the Three Gorges Dam and the Xiluodu Dam in China and the Brazilian-Paraguayan Itaipu Dam. Considering the oscillations of flow river, guaranteed minimum capacity generation from the Belo Monte Dam would measure 4,571 MW, 39% of its maximum capacity.Brazil's rapid economic growth over the last decade has provoked a huge demand for new and stable sources of energy, especially to supply its growing industries. In Brazil, hydroelectri...
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  • 2. Tucurui Lake Tucurui
    Tucuruí is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil.The city is served by Tucuruí Airport. The name Tucuruí is a Tupi word that means river of ants or river of locusts. It's the concatenation of two tupi words: tukura and 'y . The city is very famous because of its colossal Dam, the Tucuruí Dam which is administered by Eletrobrás Eletronorte - the constructor company of this large infrastructure project.
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