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    Corrientes. The dam is named for Yacyretá Island just upstream, much of which the dam submerged. The word "Yacyreta" is the Hispanicized spelling of the...
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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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    confluence, the river passes through a second major hydroelectric project, the Yacyretá Dam, a joint project between Paraguay and Argentina. The massive reservoir...
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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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  • installed capacity of 7000 MW (86 percent of Paraguay's generation capacity). Yacyretá, the second largest hydroelectric facility, has an installed capacity of...
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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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    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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    resources to enforce labor laws and carry out cattle farm inspections. The Yacyretá Dam is a dam and hydroelectric power plant located between Argentina and...
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    Stroessner – on 16 June to sign the bilateral treaty that broke ground on Yacyretá Hydroelectric Dam (the world's second-largest). Perón returned to Buenos...
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    The construction of the Itaipu Dam, as well as that of the subsequent Yacyretá Dam on the Paraguay–Argentina Border, displaced thousands of Paraguayans...
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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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    the presidency of Horacio Cartes. He was later appointed director of the Yacyretá Dam. Like all former presidents, Duarte currently holds the ceremonial...
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    Paraguay. 2021-08-11. Retrieved 2022-01-05. "Centro de Frontera • YACYRETÁ-YACYRETÁ, CORRIENTES" (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior (Argentina). Archived...
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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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    country with no ocean islands and only a few very small inland islands. Yacyretá Island Isla del Gato Isla Anegadizo Isla Piquete Kamba Isla Stanley Isla...
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    stadium was set to be demolished due to the works for the completion of the Yacyretá Dam project which involved the flooding of the lower zones of Encarnación...
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  • Ituzaingó Yacyretá Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Ituzaingó Yacyretá, ICAO: SARO) is a public use airport serving Ituzaingó, a town on the Paraná River...
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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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  • 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...
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    and proposed a "new energy policy" with a focus on the Itaipu Dam and Yacyretá Dams (shared with Brazil and Argentina respectively), stating that Paraguay...
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    policy-makers following a 1973 international agreement to construct the Yacyretá hydroelectric dam on a point in the Paraná River shared by Paraguay and...
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  • Yacyretá Dam in Paraguay and Argentina...
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  • Paraná River and the Paraguay River, in particular consequences from the Yacyretá Dam project. "South & Central America 2000. Elias Diaz Peña & Oscar Rivas...
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    Destruction 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...
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    River; the 21st, Ilha Solteira Dam in Brazil, on the Paraná; the 25th, the Yacyretá Dam shared between Paraguay and Argentina, also on the Paraná; and the...
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    issues 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...
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    loss of the "Zona Baja" because the "Plan de Terminación Yacyretá" (Termination plan of Yacyretá) giving way to a renewed modern city with wide avenues...
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    close to the Yacyretá Dam. It was a simple fishing village, which has been completely transformed with the construction of the Yacyretá Hydroelectric...
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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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  • May 2024. Revelan cifra que usará Argentina para revisión del tratado de Yacyretá "Crypto cowboys have found paradise in Paraguay". The Economist. 18 July...
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