Province of Corrientes. The dam is named for Yacyretá Island just upstream, much of which the dam submerged. The word "Yacyreta" is the Hispanicized spelling...
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the site for Yacyretá Dam following an agreement between President Juan Perón and Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner in 1974. Yacyretá, whose 20-year-long...
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upstream, but the economic impact of those dams offsets this. The Yacyretá Dam and the Itaipu Dam on the Paraguay border have made the small, largely undeveloped...
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Yacyretá Island (Spanish: Isla Yacyretá; Guaraní: jasý retã "land of the Moon") is an island in the Itapúa Department, Paraguay, located in the Paraná...
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Electricity sector in Paraguay (section Yacyretá Dam)
binational 14 GW Itaipu hydroelectric dam. Source: ESMAP, 2006. Installed capacity shown for Itaipu and Yacyretá refers only to the Parguayan share in...
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to enforce labor laws and carry out cattle farm inspections. The Yacyretá Dam is a dam and hydroelectric power plant located between Argentina and Paraguay...
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Río de la Plata Basin (section Dams)
Dam in Brazil, on the Paraná; the 25th, the Yacyretá Dam shared between Paraguay and Argentina, also on the Paraná; and the 53rd, the Itumbiara Dam in...
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Kerrada Dam Oued Kramis Dam Boukerdine Dam Bouroumi Dam Ladrat Dam Oued Isser's Dam Hamiz Dam Calueque Dam Cambambe Dam Capanda Dam Gove Dam Lauca Dam Lomaum...
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Teniente Amin Ayub Gonzalez Airport. Yacyretá Air Base Yacyretá Island, Misiones Department Located close to the Yacyretá Dam. Ayolas Air Base Ayolas, Misiones...
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both Argentine and Paraguayan authorities. It's located 20 km from the Yacyretá Dam. Paraguay portal Aviation portal List of airports in Paraguay Transport...
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listed. The Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, China, has the world's largest instantaneous generating capacity (22,500 MW), with Baihetan Dam from the same nation...
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presidency of Horacio Cartes. He was later appointed director of the Yacyretá Dam. Like all former presidents, Duarte currently holds the ceremonial and...
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most of the 1970s. The construction of the Itaipu Dam, as well as that of the subsequent Yacyretá Dam on the Paraguay–Argentina Border, displaced thousands...
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compensation to Paraguay for the flooding of part of its territory by the Yacyretá Dam. Its construction began in 1981 and was planned to last three years,...
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Corrientes Province, Argentina, at the Argentina–Paraguay border. The Yacyretá Dam is nearby. Argentina portal "Provincia de Corrientes - Clima Y Meteorologia"...
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Yparacaí was in the planning phase. In 2010, the rising level of the Yacyretá Dam flooded the tracks on the Argentine side, which halted grain exports...
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Paraná River, which is navigable by large cargo ships downstream of the Yacyretá Dam near Ayolas. There are numerous institutions which provide Pre-school...
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family Hemisinidae. This species disappeared after the building of the Yacyretá Dam on the Paraná River, in between Argentina and Paraguay. Although listed...
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of its habitat presents nowadays the major threat to marsh deer. The Yacyretá Dam altered an area in which several hundred individuals lived and the draining...
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extend its operational life beyond 2011. On the hydropower side, the Yacyretá dam's reservoir was elevated by 7 m to the height of 83 m as contemplated...
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along with an associate, Juan Carlos Duarte, legal counsel for the Yacyretá Dam, and both men had their visa revoked. As a result, Velázquez announced...
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had become extinct in the wild as a consequence of the building of the Yacyretá Dam on the Paraná River, but a single small wild population remains. A captive...
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by damming the outlets of natural lakes to regulate water levels, such as ones at Uganda's Owen Falls Dam (Lake Victoria) and Russia's Irkutsk Dam (Lake...
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departments like the Central Department. In 1989 the Yacyretá Dam displaced the people living in the Yacyretá Reservoir; the displacement still continues. The...
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consequences from the Yacyretá Dam project. "South & Central America 2000. Elias Diaz Peña & Oscar Rivas. Paraguay. Rivers & Dams". Goldman Environmental...
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hydropower plant, Yacyretá, with Argentina. Paraguay uses only a small portion of the energy it generates through Itaipú and Yacyretá. In 2002 Paraguay...
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of a billion-dollar debt of Argentina to Paraguay for energy of the Yacyretá Dam and tolls on the waterway, among other projects. After the meeting ended...
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operates two hydroelectric dams in cooperation with its neighbors: Itaipu (Brazil) and Yacyreta (Argentina). The Itaipu dam was the largest hydroelectric...
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by a journalist about his response to a series of citizen protests on Yacyretá Dam deals and congressmen with pending criminal cases, Cartes responded "rubber...
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is stored behind large dams. Of note, one of the largest reservoirs at approximately 1600 km2 is stored behind the Yacyretá dam and is located on the Parana...
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