La Yesca Dam
La Yesca Dam is an embankment dam on the Santiago River 90 km northwest of Guadalajara on the border of Mexico's Nayarit and Jalisco states. Construction on the dam began in 2007 after Empresas ICA was awarded the main construction contract.Photo: NS777, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Dam
- Description: embankment dam in Mexico
- Also known as: “Alfredo Elías Ayub hydroelectric power station”
La Yesca Dam
- Categories: embankment dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Hostotipaquillo Municipality, Jalisco, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
21.195° or 21° 11′ 42″ northLongitude
-104.10607° or 104° 6′ 22″ westOpen location code
75HQ5VWV+2HOpenStreetMap ID
way 222066432OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damWikidata ID
Q2547037
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“La Yesca Dam” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “拉耶斯卡坝”
- Chinese: “拉耶斯卡壩”
- French: “barrage de La Yesca”
- French: “Barrage de La Yesca”
- French: “centrale hydroélectrique Alfredo Elías Ayub”
- German: “La-Yesca-Talsperre”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Yesca-demningen”
- Norwegian: “La Yesca-demningen”
- Persian: “سد لا یسکا”
- Spanish: “Central Hidroeléctrica Alfredo Elías Ayub”
- Spanish: “Presa La Yesca”
- Spanish: “Proyecto Hidroeléctrico ‘Alfredo Elías Ayub’”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Ла-Еска”
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