El Cajón Dam
The El Cajón Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Río Grande de Santiago in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Construction began in 2003 and was completed in June 2007.- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Nayarit, Mexico
- Also known as: “El Cajon Dam”, “Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine hydroelectric power station”, and “Presa Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine”
El Cajón Dam
- Categories: embankment dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Nayarit, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
21.42797° or 21° 25′ 41″ northLongitude
-104.45209° or 104° 27′ 8″ westOpen location code
75HQCGHX+55OpenStreetMap ID
way 221656476OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damWikidata ID
Q1323767
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“El Cajón Dam” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “卡洪水壩”
- French: “barrage El Cajón”
- French: “Barrage El Cajón”
- French: “centrale hydroélectrique Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine”
- German: “El-Cajón-Talsperre”
- Japanese: “エル・カホン・ダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Cajón-demningen (Mexico)”
- Norwegian: “El Cajón-demningen”
- Persian: “سد ال کاخون (مکزیک)”
- Persian: “سد ال کاخون”
- Portuguese: “Hidrelétrica El Cajón”
- Portuguese: “Represa de El cajón”
- Russian: “Плотина Эль Кахон”
- Russian: “Эль-Кахон”
- Spanish: “Central Hidroeléctrica Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine”
- Spanish: “Presa del Cajón”
- Spanish: “Presa El Cajon”
- Spanish: “Presa El Cajón”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Ель-Кахон”
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