The Salto Grande Dam is a large hydroelectric dam on the Uruguay River located between Concordia Argentina and Salto Uruguay; thus is shared between the two countries.The construction of the dam began in 1974 and was completed in 1979. Power is generated by fourteen Kaplan turbines totalling the installed capacity to 1890 MW. The dam passes approximately 64000 m3 (2300000 cu ft) of water per second compared to the current average flow of the Uruguay River at 4622 m3 (163224 cu ft).
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