The Chicoasén Dam (officially known as Manuel M. Torres) is an embankment dam and hydroelectric power station on the Grijalva River near Chicoasén in Chiapas Mexico. The dam’s power plant known as Manuel Moreno Torres contains 5 x 300 MW 3 x 310 MW Francis turbine-generators. Torres was Comisión Federal de Electricidad’s (the dam’s owner) Director General in the later 1950s.
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