• The Tucuruí Dam brought power to 13 million people and 60% of the power is transferred to industries which create just under 2,000 jobs.
  • Tucuruí Dam should have served as an example of the need for adequate environmental impact studies prior to dam construction in the Amazon Basin.
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  • What was the purpose of the Tucurui Dam? ... The main portion Tucuruí Dam is a 78-metre-high (256 ft) and 6.9-kilometre-long (4.3 mi) concrete-gravity dam.
  • The Tucurui Dam is arranged on the lower Tocantins River inside the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin nearby the Amazon bowl in north-eastern Brazil.
  • In the mid-1980s the Tucuruí Dam was built on the lower Tocantins, some 120 miles (200 km) southwest of Belém, in order to generate hydroelectric power for...
  • The Tucuruí Dam was built in the 1970s to provide electricity to the Amazon region, and it has since become an important landmark for the city.
  • Brazil's Tucuruí Dam provides valuable lessons for improving decision-making on major public works in Amazonia and elsewhere.
  • The Tucurui Dam, which blocked the Tocantins River in 1984 in Brazil's eastern Amazonian state of Para, is a continuing source of controversy.