Wonders of the Modern World – Itaipu Dam

located on the border of Brazil and
Paraguay the eat a food dam is five
miles wide and spans the Parana River
during the course of construction
workers actually had to shift the course
of the seventh largest river in the
world its main dance stands at sixty
five stories high it took 18 years and
18 billion dollars to build it was
completed in 1991 and has received more
than 9 million visitors since it has 18
hydroelectric generators and each
turbine is hit with 160 tons of water
per second
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