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The Itaipu Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Parana River located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
The name "Itaipu" was taken from an isle that existed near the construction site.
In the Guarani language, Itaipu means "the sound of a stone".
The American composer Philip Glass has also written a symphonic cantata named Itaipu, in honour of the structure.
The dam is second only to the Three Gorges Dam in化粧品 口コミ its generating capacity.
It is a binational undertaking run by Brazil and Paraguay at the Parana River on the border section between the two countries, 15 km (9.3 mi) north of the Friendship Bridge.
Of the twenty generator units脱毛エステ currently installed, ten generate at 50 Hz for Paraguay and ten generate at 60 Hz for Brazil.
Two 600 kV HVDC lines, each approximately 800 km long, carry both Braziレーザー脱毛器lian and Paraguayan energy to Sao Paulo where the terminal equipment converts the power to 60 Hz.
Social and environmental impacts
When construction of the dam began, approximatelyウォーターサーバー 比較 10,000 families living beside the Parana River were displaced.
The world's largest waterfall by volume, the Guaira Falls were drowned by the newly formed Itaipu reservoir.
The Brazilian government liquidated the Guaira Falls National Park, and dynamited the submerged rock face where the falls had been, facilitating safer navigation, but eliminating the possibility of restoring the falls in the future.
A few months before the reservoir was filled, 80 people died when an overcrowded bridge overlooking the falls collapsed, as tourists sought a last glimpse of the falls.
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