Tags: Dam.

Amistad Dam is a large dam across the Rio Grande on the United States-Mexico border. It serves to store water for irrigation and generate hydroelectricity. The dam was first proposed in a 1944 treaty between the United States and Mexico. Construction began in 1963 and was finished in 1969 with the hydroelectric plants constructed in the 1980s. Of the dam’s roughly US$72 million cost Mexico shouldered about 4/7 of the funds and the United States about 3/7.

Amistad-NRA.jpg
length (km)
9760.31
building start year
1963-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
country
United States, Mexico
height (cm)
77.4192
location
Texas, Coahuila, Val Verde County Texas, Acuña Municipality
opening year
1969-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
owner
International Boundary and Water Commission
river
Rio Grande
volume (km3)
1.30418e+07
latitude
29.4503
longitude
-101.058

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Amistad Dam"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.