Punta Negra Dam
The Punta Negra Dam is a concrete-face rock-fill dam on the San Juan River about 28 kilometres west of San Juan in San Juan Province, Argentina. The purpose of the dam is to provide water for irrigation and the generation of hydroelectric power.Photo: Giuliano gb, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Punta Negra Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: embankment dam
- Categories: embankment dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: San Juan, Cuyo, Argentina, South America
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Latitude
-31.5198° or 31° 31′ 11″ southLongitude
-68.81837° or 68° 49′ 6″ westOpen location code
47WHF5JJ+3MOpenStreetMap ID
way 200358398OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damWikidata ID
Q536482
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Ukrainian—“Punta Negra Dam” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Punta Negra-dæmningen”
- German: “Dique Punta Negra”
- German: “Represa Punta Negra”
- German: “Talsperre Punta Negra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Punta Negra-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Punta Negra-demningen”
- Persian: “سد پونتا نگرا”
- Polish: “Tama Punta Negra”
- Spanish: “Represa Punta Negra”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Пунта-Негра”
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