The Three Gorges dam, located in the Yangtze River Basin, China. It is currently the largest dam in the world surpassing the Itapúa on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
The dam measures 2,309 meters long and 185 in height, stands imposingly in one of the most beautiful scenery in China, and includes a lock can handling ships up to 3,000 tons.
The construction of the dam began in 1996 and was estimated to last for 19 years. In 2003 he managed to open the river and began operating the first generators. Since 2004, a total of 2000 installed generator sets per year to complete the work. In 2006 he demolished the last retaining wall of the dam with explosives enough to topple buildings with 10 floors 4000.
Nearly 2 million people were resettled mainly in new neighborhoods built in the city of Chongqing.
The future reservoir will be called Gorotkia, and can store 300,000,000 billion m3.
In the original plans this single dam would have the capacity to provide 10% of electricity demand China. However the growth in demand has been higher than expected and fully operational even if today would only be capable of providing energy to 3% of domestic consumption will chino.Esta monumental work under the water level to 2 towns and 12 villages , affecting nearly 2 million people and submerging about 630 km2 of Chinese territory.
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