Dossier #7273 · GRanD 7345
Belo Monte
🇧🇷Brazil · Xingu River · Amazon Basin · near Altamira
Built 2019 · Dam · data quality: Good
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 36 m
- Crest length
- 6,248 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 4.5 km³
- Reservoir area
- 368.6 km²
- Average depth
- 12.3 m
- Catchment
- 450,314 km²
- Avg discharge
- 8,369,313 L/s
- Elevation
- 34 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 1.7 %
Notes
Belo Monte/Pimental hydroelectric complex; a canal from the larger/main Calha Do Xingu reservoir (333 km2) feeds to the Dos Canais reservoir (108 km2) north of this dam; reported area and capacity are sum for both reservoirs
Built 2019
External reference →Provenance
Record 7273 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -3.4340, -51.9469.