The Macagua Dam officially known as Antonio José de Sucre is an embankment dam with concrete gravity sections on the Caroní River in Ciudad Guayana Bolívar State Venezuela. It is 10 km (6 mi)upstream from the confluence of the Caroni and Orinoco Rivers 81 km (50 mi) downstream of the Guri Dam and 22 km (14 mi) downstream of the Caruachi Dam. The dam’s main purpose is hydroelectric power generation and it was later named after Antonio José de Sucre.
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