• The Tucuruí Dam (Tucuruí means "grasshopper's water", translated from Tupí language; Portuguese: Tucuruí) is a concrete gravity dam on the Tocantins River located...
  • The Tucuruí Dam is capable of producing up to 8,370 MW of electricity, making it one of the largest hydroelectric power plants in the world.
  • 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 is a concrete gravity dam on the Tocantins River located on the Tucuruí County in the State of Pará, Brazil. Mapcarta, the open map.
  • Tucuruí Dam is a hydroelectric power plant located in Brazil on the Tocantins River. The total length of the dam is 12.5 kilometers including auxiliary dams, the...
  • Tucuruí Dam should have served as an example of the need for adequate environmental impact studies prior to dam construction in the Amazon Basin.
  • Let us have a look at ten largest hydroelectric power plants of the world or largest dams. In this article Guri Dam, Tucurui Dam and Grand Coulee Dam are described.
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  • The Tucuruí Dam is one of the largest dams ever built in the Amazon. The area is not highly influenced by gold mining as a source of mercury contamination.
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  • One example of these impacts is the Tucuruí dam, in the southeast of the state of Pará, in northern Brazil.
  • When the Tucuruí Dam was first proposed in the 1970s, it was seen as a symbol of progress and modernization for the Amazon region.
  • The marker shows the location of Tucurui dam, left bank of the lake, at (-4.3662, -49.6034). Zoom in and out with the buttons.