Angostura Dam
The Angostura Dam is an embankment dam and hydroelectric power station on the Grijalva River near Venustiano Carranza in Chiapas, Mexico. The dam's power plant contains 5 x 180 MW, 3 x 310 MW Francis turbine-generators.- Type: Dam
- Description: embankment dam and hydroelectric power station on the Grijalva River
- Also known as: “Belisario Domínguez hydroelectric power station” and “Presa Belisario Domínguez”
Angostura Dam
- Categories: embankment dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Acala Municipality, Chiapas, Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
16.40209° or 16° 24′ 8″ northLongitude
-92.77916° or 92° 46′ 45″ westOperator
Comisión Federal de ElectricidadOpen location code
7689C62C+R8OpenStreetMap ID
way 254327683OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damWikidata ID
Q624981
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Angostura Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Belisario Domínguez”
- French: “barrage La Angostura”
- French: “Barrage La Angostura”
- French: “centrale hydroélectrique Belisario Domínguez”
- German: “La Angostura”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Angostura vannkraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Angostura-demningen”
- Norwegian: “La Angostura-demningen”
- Persian: “سد انگوستورا (مکزیک)”
- Persian: “سد انگوستورا”
- Russian: “Ангостура ГЭС”
- Spanish: “Central Hidroeléctrica Belisario Domínguez hydroelectric power station”
- Spanish: “Presa Angostura”
- Spanish: “Presa de La Angostura”
- Spanish: “Presa La Angostura”
- Swedish: “Belisario Domínguez”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Ла-Ангостура”
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