- 3. Tucurui Dam ... The Tucuruí Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Tocantins River located on the Tucuruí County in the State of Pará, Brazil.
- 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.
- Two options were available: the Tucuruí Dam and Santo Antonio Dam (unrelated to the current Santo Antonio Dam project on the Madeira river).
- Philip M. Fearnside (2001) "Environmental Impacts of Brazil’s Tucuruí Dam: Unlearned Lessons for Hydroelectric Development in Amazonia...
- Two options were available: the Tucuruí Dam and Santo Antonio Dam (unrelated to the current Santo Antonio Dam project on the Madeira river).
- The Tucurui Dam is arranged on the lower Tocantins River inside the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin nearby the Amazon bowl in north-eastern Brazil.
- A new study finds that from 1988-2008, an 80,000 square kilometer study area around Brazil’s Tucuruí dam lost an average of 591-660 square kilometers of...
- The Tucurui Dam in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon forest is the fourth largest power plant in the world. The installed capacity of the 25-unit plant is 8,370 MW.