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Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - ItapúaViews: 78No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa
Guarani Jesuit Mission San Cosmas and Damian.
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Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa
The San Cosme y Damian mission is in Itapua, a province located about 400 kilometers (250 miles) south of Asuncion.
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Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa
Guarani Jesuit Mission San Cosmas and Damian.
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Megadam: The Itaipu
Here seven visions, seven liquid sculptures vanished through the computerized calculations of a country ceasing to be human in order to become a chilly corporation, nothing more. A movement becomes a dam. -
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, "Farewell to Seven Falls"
Sometimes progress is a mixed blessing.
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Megadam: The Itaipu
The water intake of one single 715 MW Francis-turbine is 700 m³/s, its weighted efficiency is 93.8%.
Each year ITAPU generates 75 TWh of electricity and avoids 67.5 million tons of carbondioxide emissions - compared to coal power plants.
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Our Paraguay Family (missing Maximo)
Megadam: The Itaipu
Seven Quick Facts
Height: 738 feet (225m)
Length: 4.8 miles (7.2km)
Finished: May 5, 1984
Cost: $18 billon
Location: Paraná River between Brazil and Paraguay
Made of: Concrete and steel on the main dam, with earth and rock on side dams.
Other: In 2008 generated 94,684 megawatts, the largest amount of power ever produced by a single dam
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Young ladies on top of The Itaipu Dam.Views: 81No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Itaipu Dam
While the Itaipu Dam is an amazing achievement and was selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, its construction did come at a cost. Almost 10,000 families had to be relocated before their homes were flooded by the growing reservoir. Also, the spectacular Guaíra Falls was submerged under the lake and then dynamited to allow safe navigation of the river. The Guaíra Falls, also known as the "Seven Falls," was thought by many to be the most spectacular natural water feature in the world. It had a total height more than twice that of Niagara Falls and a water flow that was more than double.
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Megadam: The Itaipu
Itaipu translates to mean ‘the sounding stone'. It was named after a small island that was near the construction site of the dam.
Itaipu Dam is a series of dams that are 738 feet high and 4.8 miles long.
To begin construction it was necessary to divert the flow of the Parana River, one of the largest rivers in the world.
More than 50 million tons of earth and rock had to be moved to create the channel to divert the water. This channel was 1.3 miles long, 300 feet deep and 490 feet wide.
It took 40,000 workers to build the dam. The majority of these workers were from Brazil. 149 of them were killed during construction. It took seven years to build.
More than 10,000 families had to be relocated during construction to make way for the channel to divert
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Megadam: The Itaipu
Height: 738 feet (225m)
Length: 4.8 miles (7.2km)
Finished: May 5, 1984
Cost: $18 billon
Location: Paraná River between Brazil and Paraguay
Made of: Concrete and steel on the main dam, with earth and rock on side dams.
Other: In 2008 generated 94,684 megawatts, the largest amount of power ever produced by a single dam
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You are joking! Not.
Caleb gets a fantastic memento from Mundy, of his stay with the Genez family.
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Home life
Cynthia, Grace, Sophia, Bekky and Mundy.
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Dinner time.
Salads, fresh bread, home made soup, bbq'd home grown meat, fruit. And this was lunch in the Genez household.
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The Bus
San Fernando, Paraguay
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