• 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 was constructed in the 1970s and 1980s, during a period of significant infrastructure development in Brazil.
  • Tucuruí Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Tocantins River located in the Tucuruí County in the State of Pará, Brazil. The main portion is a 78-metre-high...
  • The Tucuruí dam is a massive dam inaugurated in 1984 on the Tocantins River in the Amazon/Tocantins river basin in eastern Brazil.
  • In the mid-1980s the Tucuruí Dam was built on the lower Tocantins, some 120 miles (200 km) southwest of Belém...
  • Tucuruí Dam is a hydroelectric power plant located in Brazil on the Tocantins River.
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  • The total water discharge from Tucurui dam spillway is 120,000 cubic meter per second which is largest in the world.
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  • The mercury contamination in the Tucuruí Dam reservoir has reached alarming levels, posing a threat not only to the immediate vicinity but also to downstream...
  • 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.
  • Inventories and feasibility studies for the construction of the Tucuruí dam were initiated in 1972, although construction only began in 1976, and the power plant...